Guests of Honor for 2010 include:

 Karl Schroeder

Karl is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak. One of his concepts, known as thalience, has gained some currency in the artificial intelligence and computer networking communities.

Spider Robinson

Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and countless other international and regional awards. Most of his 36 books are still in print, in 10 languages. His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies. The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans and its many internet offshoots, inspired by his Callahan’s Place series, for many years constituted one of the largest non-porn networks in cyberspace.

Due to medical issues, the Robinsons will not be attending this year

Jeanne Robinson

Spider has been married for over 30 years to Jeanne Robinson, a Boston-born writer, choreographer, former Modern dancer, and teacher of dance and the Alexander Technique. The Robinsons collaborated on the classic Hugo-, Nebula- and Locus-winning STARDANCE TRILOGY [to be reissued in hardcover by Baen Books in September 2006], which created the concept and basic principles of zero-gravity dance. Jeanne was on NASA's short list for a Space Shuttle seat, to try out zero-gee dance in practice — until the Challenger Tragedy ended the Civilian In Space programme. She is currently writing, co-producing and choreographing a short film about zero gravity dance, titled "Stardance."

Due to medical issues, the Robinsons will not be attending this year

Howard Tayler

Howard Tayler is the author and artist of the Hugo nominated science fiction comic strip Schlock Mercenary (www.schlockmercenary.com), which has been running daily online since 2000. Prior to becoming a full-time cartoonist, Howard ran a small record production company and worked as a product manager for Novell. When Howard has spare time he paints pewter miniatures and plays role-playing games. Howard lives in Orem, Utah with his wife and four kids.

Joe Brockmeier

In 1999 Joe started writing about Linux as a freelancer. That experience eventually morphed into a career focused on writing about Linux and open source as a technology journalist, more or less full time. In 2005, Joe joined Linux.com as editorial director, and in 2007 Joe was with “Linux Magazine” as editor in chief. In the February of 2008, Joe started with Novell as the community manager for openSUSE.

Marcel Gagné

Marcel's just this guy, you know? He's also an award-winning columnist, book author, public speaker, radio and television personality. As creator of the famous (or infamous) "Cooking With Linux" column which ran for tens years in the Linux Journal, Marcel is a well known voice in the Linux and open source universe. He now writes a monthly column for LinuxPro Magazine and Ubuntu User magazine. He's also a published science fiction author and editor, a private pilot, a past Editor in Chief, a serious science and technology geek, and was once a Top 40 disc jockey. He folds a mean origami T-Rex.

Nifties for 2010 include:

The Ferret

Ferrett Steinmetz is a blogger and science fiction writer. His fiction's been published in Asimov's, GUD Magazine, and Pseudopod, among many other places - but he's currently better known for his journal, The Watchtower of Destruction (theferrett.livejournal.com), which has several thousand readers who tune in daily to listen to his mix of bad puns, sexual innuendo, and relationship advice. Some day, he'll be “that amazing speculative fiction writer” and not “that guy who writes the sex quizzes.” Until then, he'll keep pluggin'.

Jim C. Hines

Jim C. Hines began writing in the early 90s, while working on a degree in psychology from Michigan State University. His first professional sale was the award-winning “Blade of the Bunny,” which took first place in the 1998 Writers of the Future competition and was published in Writers of the Future XV. For many years, he focused on short fiction. His work has appeared in more than forty magazines and anthologies. During this time, he also picked up a Masters degree in English from Eastern Michigan University. His first published fantasy novel was Goblin Quest, a funny, popular tale about a nearsighted goblin runt named Jig. Thanks to the work of his wonderful agent, the book has since been translated into several other languages, and was picked up by DAW Books, along with sequels Goblin Hero and Goblin War. He’s now working on a new series about a trio of butt-kicking princesses. The Stepsister Scheme came out in January of 2009, and DAW has contracted him for three more books in the series. Jim lives in mid-Michigan with his wife and children, who have always shown remarkable tolerance for his bizarre and obsessive writing habits.

Sarah Monette

I was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the secret cities of the Manhattan Project. I studied English and Classics in college, and have gone on to get my M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature. My novels are published by Ace Books; I also have a collaboration with Elizabeth Bear, A Companion to Wolves, from Tor. My short stories have appeared in lots of different places, including Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Alchemy, Weird Tales, and Strange Horizons. I collect books, and my husband collects computer parts, so our living space is the constantly contested border between these two imperial ambitions.

Tobias Buckell

Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer who grew up in Grenada, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published stories in various magazines and anthologies. He is a Clarion graduate, Writers of The Future winner, and Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer Finalist.

Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest is the author of seven novels, including the steampunk pulp adventure Boneshaker and the Blooker-award winning Four and Twenty Blackbirds, as well as Fathom, Wings to the Kingdom, and the Endeavour-nominated Not Flesh Nor Feathers from Tor. Her novellas Dreadful Skin and Those Who Went Remain There Still are published by Subterranean Press. She has four more books forthcoming — one from Tor (Dreadnought), one from Subterranean (Clementine), and two from Bantam (Bloodshot and Hellbent). Her short stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in such fine publications as Weird Tales, Subterranean Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and the Stoker-nominated anthology Aegri Somnia from Apex. Though she spent most of her life in the southeast, she presently lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and a fat black cat.

Eric S. Raymond

Eric is most famous as the author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar (the complete text of which is available on his web page), the book that first described the OpenSource development model, convinced Netscape to open their source code, launched the Mozilla web browser project, and introduced Linux to Wall Street in 1998. He's also the editor of The New Hacker's Dictionary (the online version of which is known as the Jargon File), and president of the OpenSource Initiative. He's also been going to ScienceFiction conventions since the 1970's, and has more science fiction books in his basement than most big-city libraries.

Kyle Rankin

Kyle Rankin is a system administrator who enjoys troubleshooting, problem solving, and system recovery. He is also the author of Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks for O'Reilly Media. He has been using Linux in many different forms since 1998, and has used live CDs to demo Linux and troubleshoot machines -- from DemoLinux to the LinuxCare bootable toolbox to Knoppix.

Shawn Powers

Shawn works in a school district in Michigan as the Technology Director and also an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. Shawn owns a few guitars, but doesn’t play them often or well. He collects video files (TV Shows, movies, etc), and enjoys watching documentaries, Star Trek, and Stargate.

Sarah Hoyt

A noted author, Hoyt writes fiction in various genres. Most notably, the first book in her Shakespearean fantasy series "Ill Met by Moonlight", was a finalist for the 2002 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (which was instead won by Lois McMaster Bujold). Her Musketeer's series includes "Death of a Musketeer", "The Musketeer's Seamstress", as well as "The Musketeer's Apprentice" and the soon to be published "A Death in Gascony" from Berkley Prime Crime. Her favorite genre, however, remains science fiction and fantasy, and Hoyt is a prolific writer with dozens of short stories published to her credit. Her shifter series include "Draw One in the Dark" and "Gentleman Takes a Chance" an urban fantasy adventure from Baen Books.

Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American fantasy writer and college lecturer. He is the author of the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy.

Chris Hallbeck

Chris Hallbeck is the creator of the single panel comic strip The Book of Biff. The comic follows the solitary life of Biff, a child-like mad scientist obsessed with spaghetti, toasters and time travel. The comic was originally online from 1995-1998 and relaunched in 2006. Chris was an illustration major and has worked in graphic and web design. Besides writing and illustrating the comic which runs 5 days a week Chris has been known to play guitar, write songs and drink lots of tea. He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and son.

Musical talent for 2010 include:

Tom Smith

The man who describes himself as a "Singer, dreamer, punster, flirt, and generally one of the most manic people in the history of SF Fandom" is coming to PenguiCon! And he's going to practice his filking at Warp Speed wiles on all of us. Its rumored that Tom can't spend more than ten minutes in one place without a new song popping out of him - on almost any topic you can imagine. Tom has also been compared (by LarryNiven) to TomLehrer, hopefully for the political and humor content of his songwriting, and not for his piano playing!

Luke Ski

“The Great Luke Ski”, otherwise known as Luke Sienkowski, writes, records and performs comedy music on a variety of pop culture subjects ranging from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars to Spider-Man and Keanu Reeves. Luke has enjoyed repeated success on “the Dr Demento Show”, by taking top honors with the #1 most requested songs of both 2002 (“Peter Parker”) and 2003 (“Stealing Like a Hobbit”), making him the first artist in 20 years to have the #1 song for two years in a row, as well as garnering him the position of “Dr. Demento’s Most Requested Artist of the 21st Century”.

Power Salad

Insane Ian

Bill and Gretchen Roper

Clif and Carol Flynt

Steve Simmons

Devo Spice

Worm Quartet

Toyboat

Mark Bernstein

Tonks and The Aurors

Rob Balder

Carrie Dahlby

Dual Core

Soggy Potato Chips

Max De Groot

Guests' Attendance:

Our Guests of Honor and other invited Guests commit to attending Penguicon long in advance of the actual event. Along the way (and generally at the very last moment!) circumstances beyond everyone's control may happen, resulting in the Guest not being able to attend the convention as planned. Though this is rare, it can happen. If we are made aware of a Guest's inability to attend far enough in advance, Penguicon will attempt to invite another Guest as a replacement. However, this may not always be possible. In either case, Penguicon can make no guarantee that a particular guest will be able to attend the convention, and can not be liable for the results of a Guest's cancellation.

As we get more confirmation on people coming, we will update this page.
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