Victor Koman (Writer Guest of Honor)

    Victor, a native Californian, is the author of several books, including the underground classic millennial-noir novel The Jehovah Contract and his medical thriller Solomon's Knife.   Both novels won the "Prometheus Award" in their respective years.

    Koman's short stories have appeared in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Galaxy, and the anthologies Weird Menace, The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem, the second and third Dark Destiny collections, and Free Space.   His novel, Kings of the High Frontier, was the first book published exclusively on the Internet to win the "Prometheus Award".

    A community activist with a quixotic sense of what's important, Koman was instrumental in preventing the destruction of Disneyland's last bubble-topped Mark III monorail ("Old Red"), generating a one-man public relations campaign that resulted in nationwide news coverage.   The Walt Disney Company subsequently saved, restored, and converted the historic monorail fuselage into a street-legal promotional vehicle.

    Koman has also appeared as an extra in several films, including "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "CyberZone", "Nightshade", "Rapid Assault", "Fugitive Rage", "Mom's Outta Sight", "Billy Frankenstein", and "Little Miss Magic" (in which his daughter, Vanessa, played the title role).   He currently develops dynamic-database websites utilizing "Cold Fusion" (the markup language, not the scientific fraud).

    He lives in southern California with his wife Veronica and daughter Vanessa, as well as their cat, Kali.

(Excerpted from Dragon*Con 2000)

Bibliography

Novels:

The Jehovah Contract, Kings of the High Frontier, Solomon's Knife

Short Fiction:

"Bloodlover" (ss), "Bootstrap Enterprise" (ss), "Broaching The Number of the Beast: A Roundabout History of the Prometheus Meltdown" (with Brad Linaweaver), "Demokratus" (nv), "The Eagle Cape" (ss), "The Light That Blinds" (with Brad Linaweaver) (ss), "Theatre of Blood Lust" (ss)

Allison Hershey (Artist Guest of Honor)

    Allison Hershey was born with a pedigree.   Not only were her parents science fiction fans in the forties and fifties, but her Grandfather was active as well, corresponding regularly with American fans and magazines from overseas ... and he claimed that his father before him had introduced him to the genre before it had a name!

    Growing up surrounded by books and their writers, Allison decided to become a writer herself.   However, someone told her at a tender age that a good writer needed to live a full life, so she set about doing just that.   She tried her hand at producing radio documentaries, painting pictures, spying on religious cults (in the guise of sociology research), immersing herself in the Deaf community, painting more pictures, working at an electronic music magazine, running a computer game company, art directing, and oh, maybe painting a couple more pictures.

    Now that she has had dinner with Eldridge Cleaver, crashed secret meetings of right and left wing radicals, and endured a terrifying crawl through deep sucking mud in a remote cave (really!), she is sure that after she finishes a few more pictures she'll have enough experience to start on her 7-volume blockbuster fantasy epic.   At least, that's the plan.

    Allison's illustrations have appeared in "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine", "Aboriginal Science Fiction", and "Whole Earth Review".   She has also published software cover art ("Music X", "Transcendor", "Dr. Plummet's House of Flux") and electronic backgrounds and animation ("Inherit the Earth", "Faery Tale Adventure").   She was project art director and game designer at the Dreamers Guild computer game company until 1996.   After that she took a long break from her careening ... um ... career in order to care for her parents and put their estate in order.   With most of that behind her, she will soon be appearing regularly again in print and electronic form.

Eric Hoffman (Fan Guest of Honor)

    Eric is man of many talents: Humorist, Pianist and occasionally an evil genius.   Well known in Dr. Who fandom as a fountain of information, he has a passion for theme music, monster movies, science fiction and fantasy films.   Eric has graced La-La-Con with panels of outtakes and pilot reviews, as well as movies you may never heard of.   MC of Masquerades, and All In All a stranger in the strange fan of Fandom.

Mojo (Special Guest of Honor)

    Mojo certainly can keep the FX moving.   One of the Wizards of CGI who brought you ships and flights, or is that "fights", of fancy in B-5, Hypernaughts, and Star Trek Voyager.   He is a recent author of a book on starship recognition in the Star Trek series, including the wireframe of these spectacular and (unfortunately) fantasy ships ... (when can I Command the "E"?? OR even the Phoenix??)   Also among his recent work is the CGI presentation in the Buckaroo Banzai DVD, and an animated opening sequence title for pitching a new Buckaroo Banzai TV series ...