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Here are the guests you can see at Dragon*Con this year. If you are interested in seeing the list of all past guests, click here.
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Announced: 02/08/2010
»Barbara A. Drescher
Barbara Drescher is a scientist and lecturer at CSU Northridge researching perception, reasoning, and attention. At ICBS Everywhere.com, Barbara evaluates claims and promotes science and skepticism. She is a co-founder of the Critical Thinking Education Group and develops materials for teaching of quantitative research methods and critical thinking.
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Announced: 02/07/2010
»Bill Fawcett
Bill is a founder of Mayfair Games, a board and role play gaming company and designed award winning board games and role playing modules. He has designed computer games and co-authored several novels.. His company Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged over 300 books. Bill has edited or co-edited over 40 anthologies.
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Announced: 02/04/2010
»Joel Gretsch
Joel Gretsch is currently playing Father Jack Landry in the new remake of V: The Series. »Alethea Kontis
Alethea Kontis is an essayist, interviewer, and New York Times bestselling author of the AlphaOops series of picture books & Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter Companion.
»Robert Duncan McNeill
Robert Duncan McNeill is an American actor, producer, movie director, and television director who is best known for his role as Lieutenant Tom Paris on the television show Star Trek: Voyager.
»Kevin Sorbo
Kevin Sorbo rose to international stardom in the title role of the hit series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but has become equally well known as "Dylan Hunt" in the science fiction series, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda.
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Announced: 01/31/2010
»Mario Acevedo
Mario Acevedo is the author of the Felix Gomez vampire-detective series from Eos HarperCollins. »Lou Anders
Lou Anders is the three-time Hugo-nominated editor of Pyr books, as well as nine critically-acclaimed anthologies, including Swords & Dark Magic and With Great Power. He won a Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and was nominated for a Philip K Dick Award for his anthology Fast Forward 2. »Rosemary Laurey
Georgia Evans is the Fantasy pseudonym for USA Today Bestseller Rosemary Laurey. Georgia launched in 2009 with a dark Dark Fantasy, WW2 set vampire trilogy from Kensington Publishing.
Rosemary Laurey will have three Vampire romances released by Kensington in 2010.
»Lee Martindale
Lee Martindale’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including TURN THE OTHER CHICK, CATOPOLIS, WITCH WAY TO THE MALL, and the upcoming vampires-in-suburbia anthology edited by Esther Friesner. She also edited the groundbreaking SUCH A PRETTY FACE, and THE LADIES OF TRADE TOWN, the latter due out in April 2011. »Selina Rosen
Selina Rosen’s is the author of many stories that have appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine and the 2008 Dragon*Con collection. She has over fourteen published novels, she owns Yard Dog Press, and she created their Bubbas of the Apocalypse universe.
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Announced: 01/29/2010
»John de Lancie
John De Lancie was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Kent State University where he won a scholarship to Juilliard. John's father was a professional oboist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Mr. De Lancie is probably best known for his portrayal as "Q" In Star Trek the New Generations"
»Kai Owen
Kai Owen plays the role of "Rhys" in "Torchwood." The show broke all records for viewing figures on BBC3 and BBC2, and series 3 promises to be another awesome adventure for our gang of alien hunters in Cardiff. »Anne Sowards
Anne Sowards is an executive editor at Penguin Group (USA) Inc., where she works with a number of great authors including Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, Karen Chance, and Jack Campbell.
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Announced: 01/26/2010
»Racheline Maltese
Racheline wrote The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias, and Particularities. Her fiction has appeared in numerous outlets and she is a regular speaker on pop-culture topics at fan and academic conferences. Racheline also voiced Desire and Delirium in a benefit performance of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman for the CBLDF.
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Announced: 01/25/2010
Rob Levy
Freeelance writer DJ & host of Juxtaposition on KDHX in St. Louis. I review pop culture, films & music for ink19.com. I co-manage the music forum for needcoffee.com & participate with the Weekend Justice podcasts. President of the St. Louis CIA, the USA's oldest Doctor Who, Brit media fan club.
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Announced: 01/24/2010
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Announced: 01/23/2010
Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is the #1 NYT bestselling author of The Dresden Files and Codex Alera. Van Allen Plexico
Van Allen Plexico stands at the forefront of the pulp revival movement and the new wave of prose superhero fiction, with popular works including his “Sentinels” novels, “Sherlock Holmes,” “Lucian,” and “Gideon Cain” (with Kurt Busiek). His big-selling “Assembled!” books garnered praise from the original Marvel creators themselves.
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Announced: 01/21/2010
Les Johnson
Les is Deputy Manager for Advanced Concepts at NASA. He flew two space experiments and twice received NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal. He co-authored three popular science books and one SF novel. Les consultanted for the movie “Lost in Space” and has appeared on multiple TV documentaries about space. Mike McKone
Mike McKone has penciled many major titles including Teen Titans, Fantastic Four, Green Lantern, Punisher War Zone, Justice League of America and Exiles. Mike has recently worked on Amazing Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel.
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Announced: 01/19/2010
Doktor A
Raised by the military and monitored by men in white coats until he was 16. Doktor A has always scribbled monsters.
George Perez
George Pérez is an illustrator and writer of comic books born of Latin-American (Puerto-Rican) descent. Along with John Byrne, he was arguably the most popular and influential artist in American comic books in the 1980s. He primarily illustrates superhero comics, mainly published by DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and is known for his clean, dynamic, yet ornate style, with a strong emphasis on group superhero action scenes.
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Announced: 01/18/2010
William B Davis
William B. Davis is one of the most recognizable villains in television history, for a decade he played the Cigarette Smoking Man/Cancer-Man in The X-Files. His other well-known credits include: Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Battlestar Galactica, Sliders, Poltergeist The Legacy, MacGyver, 21 Jump Street, Stephen King's It, and Fear Itself.
Luke Perry
A versatile and talented actor, Luke Perry is one of the most charismatic performers of his generation. Perry is known for his roll as Dylan McKay on 90210 and the lead roll in sci-fi television series, "Jeremiah" for Showtime, based on the comic book series of the same title.
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Announced: 01/17/2010
Veronica Belmont
As one of the most well-known female talents in the tech and gaming scene, Veronica co-hosts Tekzilla on Revision3 and hosts the monthly gaming show Qore on the PlayStation Network. She also dishes out the latest in scifi and fantasy with Tom Merritt on The Sword and Laser podcast.
G. D. Falksen
G. D. Falksen is the author of "The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday," "An Unfortunate Engagement" and "The Mask of Tezcatlipoca." He is a speaker on the steampunk subculture. He has given interviews to the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and MTV. John L. Flynn
John L. Flynn, Ph.D. is the author of 13 books, two screenplays, several dozen articles and short stories. He is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and has been nominated for three Hugo Awards. Together with Bob Blackwood, he is part of The Film Doctors. Dr. Stephen Granade
Dr. Stephen Granade is a senior scientist specializing in quantum mechanics and autonomous guidance sensors. His sensors have flown in space and guided the shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2009. He has provided scientific commentary for CBS Marketwatch and won awards for presentations to non-scientist audiences. James Marsters
American actor, singer and songwriter James Marsters first found international fame playing punk-goth Brit vampire Spike in the critically acclaimed American TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the equally popular spin-off Angel. Patrick Mason
Patrick Mason spends his time as a Reactor Engineer at a Nuclear power plant in Louisiana. When not moving control rods or reloading nuclear fuel he travels to spread the good word of nuclear power. Over the last four years he has become DragonCon’s resident nuclear power expert. Phil Plait
Phil Plait is (in alphabetical order, kinda) an astronomer, author, blogger, scifi fanboy, science evangelist, skeptic, and President of the James Randi Educational Foundation.
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Announced: 01/05/2010
Bill Keel
Astronomer Bill Keel, author of "The Sky at Einstein's Feet" and "The Road to Galaxy Formation", has appeared at DragonCon since 2004. He has presented overnight "Live Astronomy" sessions, and spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, public-participation discovery in astronomy, real-world connections of the Star Wars universe, and space technology.
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Announced: 01/04/2010
Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt of CNET.com, has a big online following for his shows Buzz Out Loud, a daily tech news and commentary show, Sword and Laser with Veronica Belmont about SciFi and Fantasy and ten other shows. Tom appears on network TV regularly as a tech and geek culture expert. Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is the author of seven novels from Tor books and Subterranean Press, including Boneshaker, the award-winning Eden Moore series, Dreadful Skin, and Fathom. Stephen W. Ramsden
Stephen W. Ramsden is an accomplished Solar Astronomer and full time Air Traffic Controller. He runs the nations largest privately funded Solar Astronomy Outreach Program in Atlanta, GA.
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Announced: 01/01/2010
Kevin R. Grazier
Dr. Kevin Grazier is a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is the science advisor for Eureka, the animated series The Zula Patrol, and several projects in development. He was the science advisor for Battlestar Galactica and Virtuality, and is the co-author of "The Science of Battlestar Galactica". John Picacio
John Picacio is an award-winning American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration.
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Announced: 12/31/2009
Dr. Bob Blackwood
Dr. Bob Blackwood is a film critic and a journalist/photojournalist. Author: From the Silent Era to "The Sopranos": Italian American Gangsters.... Co-Author of Future Prime: The Top 10 Science Fiction Films. Film critic for The Columbia River Reader. Dr. Pamela L. Gay
Dr Pamela L. Gay is an astronomer, writer, and podcaster focused on using new media to engage people in science and technology. She cohosts Astronomy Cast with Fraser Cain and writes the StarStryder blog.
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Announced: 12/17/2009
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Announced: 11/18/2009
Donato Giancola
Giancola describes himself and his work as a 'classical-abstract-realist working with science fiction and fantasy' and lists Hans Memling, Jan Van Eyck, Velázquez, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Piet Mondrian, Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian as his favorite artists. Ashley Greene
Ashley Greene is an American actress, best known for playing Alice Cullen in the 2008 film Twilight and 2009 sequel, New Moon. Kellan Lutz
Kellan Lutz is an American film and television actor, who is best known for playing Emmett Cullen in the 2008 film Twilight and the 2009 sequel, New Moon.
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Announced: 11/17/2009
Sherrilyn Kenyon
International phenomenon, Sherrilyn Kenyon has over sixteen million books in print in 36 countries. With four #1 New York Times bestsellers this year alone, she's the #1 bestselling author of adult vampire novels in the world. She's also the only author to have her work translated into both manga and comics.
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Announced: 10/11/2009
Brandon Winn Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson writes epic fantasy books for Tor Books and children's fantasy books for Scholastic Press. In 2007, it was announced that he would be completing Robert Jordan's epic masterpiece, The Wheel Of Time. Brandon is a two-time Campbell award nominee; his books have been published in 14 languages. Armin Shimerman
Known best to Dragon*Con members as Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Armin's other work spans all screen-sizes, bookstores and the stage.
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Announced: 10/09/2009
Rene Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940) is an American actor, known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H and for creating a number of characters in long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award), Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and attorney Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal. Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Laurell K. Hamilton
Laurell Hamilton is the best-selling author of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series; her new fantasy series is being released by Ballantine. Howard Hesseman
Hesseman is known for his role as anti-disco disc jockey John "Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati from 1978 – 1982, a role Hesseman prepared for by working as a DJ in San Francisco at KMPX-FM for several months. Marina Sirtis
It was Marina's portrayal of Deana Troi, the psychic counselor, for seven years on the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as in the Star Trek feature films, that has brought her legions of fans throughout the galaxy.
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Theatrical, Musical, & Radio Performances
Dragon*Con has had a long tradition of providing a wide variety of performances for the enjoyment of our attendees. Each year we host at least a dozen performances from bands, theatrical troops, Combat Demonstrations, and DJs.
Musical acts from the past have ranged from light pop (Apollo Smile) to Goth and world-music (The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, The Changelings) to the heavy (The Misfits, Godhead).
Theatrical troops like the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company and the Mighty Rassilon Art Players have taken to the stage with their own brands of SCIFI entertainment.
Swashbucklers like The Crossed Swords have provided sword play performances and combat demonstrations with Sci-Fi and Renaissance flare.
Some of the best local and national DJ's provided music to get your body moving in our late night DJ'd dances.
The items below show which of the names on this page are performers and what type of performance they fall under.
- Musical - Musical Acts & Performances
- Theatrical - Theatrical Performances
- Swashbucklers - Combat Performances and Demonstrations
- DJ - DJ Dances
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