Our Guests of Honor

We at Odyssey Con are delighted to have the following individuals as our Guests of Honor:

Author Harry Turtledove
Author Tobias Buckell
Game Designer and author Monte Cook

Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is known as "The Master of Alternate History." He broke ground in the field with his alternate histories based in such places as the Byzantine empire (The Videssos cycle), the American South (Guns of the South), and throughout the world we know as well as in fantasy and science fiction worlds we don't.

Tobias Buckell

Tobias Buckell was scheduled to be a guest of honor last year, but his twin babies didn't want to wait until after Oddcon 9 to come into the world. That means we get him this year! His first novel, Crystal Rain, was published in 2006. It was soon followed by his second in 2007, Ragamuffin, which was nominated for the Nebula award and his third, Sly Mongoose. His fourth novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, was published in November of 2008. Tides from the New World, the first collection of his short stories, was published in April 2009.

Monte Cook

The gamers in our midst have a treat coming their way this year with Monte Cook. He's a co-author of Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons and Dragons Rule Books, Editions 3 and 3.5. After 2001, he left Wizards to start his own company, Malhavoc Press to write material for the d20 System independently. Malhavoc's first product was The Book of Eldritch Might. Later he wrote Arcana Unearthed, which is like a "variant Player's Handbook." As a freelancer, he has written or co-written other products for Wizards of the Coast, including the d20 version of Call of Cthulhu. He's not just a game designer, though, he has also written novels (The Glass Prison and Of Aged Angels) as well as short stories for magazines (such as "Born in Secrets" in Amazing Stories, "The Rose Window" in Realms of Mystery, and "A Narrowed Gaze" in Realms of the Arcane) and a continuing Call of Cthulhu fiction series called "The Shandler Chronicles" for Game Trade Magazine.