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[Cybling] Folks...please say Hi to our first Hugo Winner of the day. Michael Swanwick.
[Cybling] Live from the Chicon Green Room in the Hyatt! Chats from Chicon!
[Cybling] Michael, glad to see you this morning. I was half expecting...
[Cybling] that you would have been abducted by drunken revelling fans.
[Poika] Hi Michael
[Cybling] Were there a lot of parties after the Hugos last night?
[Swanwick] Hi. Notsurehow many paries there were...
[Swanwick] I lost track after five.
[Cybling] BTW, folks...we have our guests sitting on dining room chairs at at...
[Poika] That shows, but that's okay;)
[Cybling] dining room size table, typing on unfamiliar laptops.
[Cybling] But you know that typos are *part* of chat.
[Swanwick] But I got to haul the rocket around and show it off.
[Swanwick] So I'm happy.
[Poika] Go for it Michael
[Cybling] LOL, lost track after 5 parties. I've never picked one of those Hugos up...heavy are they?
[Swanwick] It ain't heavy. It's my ... well, never mind.
[Cybling] LOLOLOL.
[Poika] Sorry, I don't know what I just typed means:)
[Cybling] You must be ecstatic this morning. Who were you up against for this hugo again?
[Swanwick] Let's see. Mostly, I was up against the very popular Mike Resnick.
[Swanwick] I ran into him and said, "Since it won't make any difference..."
[Swanwick] "I hope you win."
[Swanwick] He wished the same for me.
[Cybling] Welcome Talos and Nyx.
[Swanwick] Howdy.
[Talos] hi
[Cybling] Michael, you're the author of five novels and half a hundred stories and you've won the Hugo and the Nebula before. Is it always as big a thrill as the first time.
[Poika] What do you feel about the elavator shortage?
[Swanwick] Well, so far. This is only my second Hugo.
[Swanwick] (He said self-pityingly.)
[VeronicaMatrix] awww
[Swanwick] [Insert hideous smiley glyph here.]
[Cybling] lolol
[Swanwick] I didn't have much trouble with the elevators. I attended..
[Swanwick] the national magician's org. con once...
[Poika] Oh, you;re a great author then:)
[Swanwick] And one magicianbegan his routine by looking at his watch...
[Tomb] And did you have anything to do with the elevator shortage you did say you attended several parties...
[Poika] Sorry
[Swanwick] ...andsaying "If I get done in twenty minutes we can all be back at our
[Swanwick] hotel in time for the 10:20 elevator...
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[Guest] lol
[Swanwick] " From which I conclude that all cons are pretty much the same.
[Swanwick] What I did was go to the highest-up party and walk down a floor
[Swanwick] at a time.
[Cybling] BTW, Swanwick won the Hugo for best short story for "Scherzo with Tyrranosaur" published in Asimov's.
[Cybling] LOL...sounds like a plan Michael.
[Poika] Nope you've met another bunch of people who ask inadequate questions
[Swanwick] I also just last week (plug) finished my new novel.
[Swanwick] Which is about dinosaurs too.
[Cybling] Oh wonderful...what's the title?
[Swanwick] The current working title (#14 in a series) is...
[Swanwick] THE FEAST OF ALL DINOSAURS.
[LuxHalfhand] Have you considered writing story lines for online multiplayer games?
[Nyx] Oh..dino stuff...
[Swanwick] I ask you only to remember, all the others were so much worse.
[Poika] And do they feast?
[Cybling] Who's going to be the publisher for The Fest ofall Dinosaurs, lol
[Swanwick] Eos.
[Cybling] Thanks.
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one before asking another. Thanks!
[Tomb] :p
[Swanwick] My son's a gamer & sometimes I offer to give him a hand in the
[Swanwick] subcreation. He just rolls his eyes.
[Nyx] Does "Scherzo with Tyrranosaur" have anything to do with dinosuars? or is that just a word phrase? (stupid ? i know)
[Cybling] LOL
[LuxHalfhand] lol
[Swanwick] It's set in the Maastrichtian era of the Cretaceous...
[Swanwick] There's a real tyrannosaur named Satan. He eats someone.
[Nyx] wow...not I gots to go read it...
[Swanwick] But mostly it's set in a fundraiser.
[Tomb] Also are the beds at the Hyatt more adequette than the elevators ?
[Swanwick] I was at the Swissotel. Don't know. Not that I slept much.
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[Poika] Are you translated in foreign countries?
[Poika] Lol Tomb
[Swanwick] Oh yeah.
[Swanwick] Portugal, Sweden, France, Japan...
[Tomb] Nice...
[Swanwick] Germany, Spain, Russia...
[Poika] Ah okay
[Tomb] In which foreign language have you sold the most books ?
[Swanwick] The money is very small. But it's WAY COOL to be in touch with
[Swanwick] all those people.
[Swanwick] Probably France.
[Poika] Thnk you for "those people"....
[Swanwick] A French editor told me that Howard Waldrop and I are the two
[Swanwick] American writers most hated by the translators.
[DavE] Why is the money small? Your profit margin should be greater?
[Poika] He lied, certainly;)
[Swanwick] Smaller print runs.
[Cybling] Michael, for the future and aspiring writers here and who will be reading the log, when did you start writing and how long has it taken you to get to this point in your career?
[DavE] Ah, thanks
[Swanwick] 1967, I dedicated my life to writing...
[Cybling] cool
[Tomb] I would think it to be cool to have a book I wrote in a language i can't even speak
[Swanwick] 1979, I finally finished a story...
[Swanwick] Twenty years later, I won a Hugo.
[DavE] If you're ever up Minneapolis way, I'd be more than happy to interview you on Shockwave.
[Swanwick] It is cool, Tomb. I've got a tape of a woman reading "The Very...
[Swanwick] Pulse of the Machine" in Portugese. It's a wonderful thing to hear.
[Tomb] wow
[Swanwick] I love it.
[Swanwick] Yeah, I'd love to be intereviewed.
[Swanwick] Bye LuxHalfhand.
[DavE] Heh
[Poika] In France, the best selling author at the time is Simmons, I think or Stephenson
[Cybling] Michael, I'm sure you had a pretty rough night...
[Swanwick] Naw. It was EASY.
[Cybling] if you lost count after 5 parties. Just let us know when you start to fade.
[Cybling] We'll pout but we'll let you run along to your other activities.
[Swanwick] I'm fine for another eleven minutes..
[Cybling] lol! Thanks.
[Poika] Yeah, bye
[Cybling] If you have questions for our guest, please just ask. But please, let the guest answer one before asking another. Thanks!
[Swanwick] After which, I promised some French journalists I'd talk with them.
[Poika] Talk to me:)
[Cybling] Wonderful! Been stuck in the Green Room here. I'm assuming that a lot of press is here for this convention.
[Swanwick] There are a HUGE number of photographers...
[Swanwick] When they were taking the photos after the awards...
[Swanwick] Jim Kelly leaned over and said, "Remember what happened to Kong?"
[Cybling] Must have been like a lightning storm.
[Cybling] LOLOLOL
[Swanwick] After a couple minutes, I couldn't figure out why they kept snapping.
[Swanwick] We weren't looking any different.
[DavE] Bracketing the exposure, probably
[Swanwick] It was like when I was in Venice. You'd see a German tourist in a...
[DavE] Hoping to snap a shot while you tripped...
[VeronicaMatrix] they have to keep shooting so if they find out something odd with ya youll go into the press
[Swanwick] gondola videotaping his way up theGrand Cnal...
[Swanwick] pass another videotaping his way down.
[Swanwick] There are only buildings there. They ljook the same as they did
[DavE] How do you deal with all this notariety?
[Swanwick] a hundred years ago.
[Swanwick] It's benign notoriety.
[Swanwick] People say nice things...
[DavE] No mobs of screaming teeny boppers?
[Swanwick] They're happy for you...
[Swanwick] And then you go home.
[VeronicaMatrix] and all the excitement goes down the drain
[Swanwick] Teens don't act like that anymore, DavE.
[Swanwick] Especially not toward somebody who's literally a teenager's
[DavE] Just ask the Backstreet Boys...
[Swanwick] father.
[Cybling] I hear that the Hugos were held in a room that only holds 1,300 people, and there were over 5,000 members of this year's con last time I looked. The room was SRO?
* VeronicaMatrix would act that like around star trek actors
[Swanwick] Yeah. It was cool because we were given an extra seat...
[Tomb] Only Broccoli Spears that have been given 30,000 plastic surgey operations and groups of transformed barbershop quartets get screaming teenie boppers
[Swanwick] so we gave it to my son Sean's science fiction teacher.
[Swanwick] I felt pretty cool.
[DavE] Do you think writers _should_ get the kind of publicity rock stars do?
[Cybling] LOL! Wonderful!
[Swanwick] Rock stars work hard being public.
[Swanwick] I don't begrudge them that kind of fame.
[Swanwick] All I want is for people who would like my books to read 'em.
[Swanwick] Me, I'm kind of funny looking. And if I don't enjoy looking at me..
[Swanwick] why should other people?
* VeronicaMatrix is afriad to say she hasnt read your books
[RWC] Why not?
[DavE] Don't get modest on us now...
[Swanwick] What kind of books do you like, Veronica?
[Swanwick] I'll recommend ONE of mine for you.
[Cybling] Michael is exageratring. You can check out pictures of him on the onsite.chicon.org page. He looks amazingly normal.
[VeronicaMatrix] If i read like the description on the back or the inside and it seems interesting to me ill read the book
[VeronicaMatrix] thats my way
[Swanwick] Yeah, b ut the people you want to look at don't look "normal."
[Swanwick] They look spectacular.
[DavE] Use more glitter.
[VeronicaMatrix] lol
[RWC] And?
[Swanwick] Then read either THE IRON DRAGON'S DAUGHTER, which is fantasy...
[Tomb] Swanwick i am also curious, what inspires you to write about dinosaurs ?
[Swanwick] Or STATIONS OF THE TIDE, which is SF.
[RWC] It's the charm you in you that is important
* VeronicaMatrix writes that down
[RWC] that you have in you, sorry
[Swanwick] I was working backstage at Dinofest, "The World's Fair of Dinosaurs."
[Swanwick] And I fell in love with the ATTITUDE of the scientists...
[Swanwick] They were passionately involved. They were intellectually honest.
[Swanwick] They really lovejust finding things out.
[Swanwick] I wanted to write about that.
[DavE] I wonder if any Dinosaur sf writers predicted the rise of mammals.
[Swanwick] Ten points for you, DavE.
[Cybling] Michael, we're coming to the end of the time we can legally keep you duct taped to the interview chair. Folks are there any last questions for Michael Swanwick?
[DavE] thx
[Cybling] Going once.
[VeronicaMatrix] I do!
[DavE] Thanks for the chat, Michael!
[Cybling] Ask Veronica!
[Swanwick] My pleasure, DavE.
[VeronicaMatrix] What got ya involded into writing Michael??
[Tomb] Thanks for coming swanwick
[VeronicaMatrix] theres my question
[RWC] Bye bye
[Swanwick] I reada million books, and I fell in love...
[Swanwick] with language and with stories.
[Swanwick] It seemed to me the absolute best thing somebody could do with his life.
[Swanwick] I realize that's unrealistic.
[RWC] Sure is
[Swanwick] Saving children from falling meteorites is probably more important...
[VeronicaMatrix] hehe
[DavE] Better than using language to be a pundit.
[Tomb] Who said life was realistic
[Swanwick] But to me, this is the best way I could possibly spend my life.
[Cybling] Thanks Veronica. And thank you Michael for braving the early morning hour to join us in online chats here in the Green Room!
[RWC] Lol
[Cybling] Folks, let's give him a round of applause!
[Swanwick] You're welcome. Everybody, read lots of books!
[DavE] *clap clap*
* VeronicaMatrix claps
* Tomb claps
* Cybling applauds this year's Hugo winner!
* Pam_M claps
* DavE has the, er applauds Michael Swanwick.
[VeronicaMatrix] man so many ppl cant ask them all