Howard Waldrop, one of the strangest but yet truly wonderful writers, will be coming to Silver Spring this next weekend as the Guest of Honor for CapClave, a fairly relaxed science fiction convention. Not only that, but erstwhile bloggers and professional text wrangers, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen-Hayden, will be the Editor guests. This is not to mention two of my other favorite editors, Gardner Dozois and Ellen Datlow, who will also be attending. I look at that list of people, and I'm thinking: paaahr-tay!

If you're into literate science fiction (i.e., the text stuff, rather than the moving images), and you're in the DC area, you probably will kick yourself if you miss this one.