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It took a late night of photocopying in the back room with Sanjay2, but we managed to get Space Squid published by our self-imposed deadline yet again. I’ve managed to get almost caught up on sleep, so I’ll tell you how releasing issue #5 into the Nebula Weekend went.<\/p>\n

First of all, you could hardly call this a con at all. There were no parties or panels to speak of. Just a hundred or so legends of the field, wandering around the Omni hotel with hardly a fan in sight.<\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon I wandered down to the Omni with a box of cookies (an advert for baked goods trade with Quacks Bakery<\/a>) and a backpack stuffed with Space Squid<\/a> and the Complete Austin Guide. It took me twenty minutes of wandering through the hotel before I actually found the Nebula facilities. Apparently you can’t just take the stairs in the Omni. I had to be guided back to the lobby through a kitchen by a cook carrying a wad of prosciutto.<\/p>\n

The only real event on Friday was the signing. <\/p>\n

Here we see former RevSF fiction editor Jayme Blashke sharing a table with Patrice Sarath<\/a>. Elze<\/a> and Paige E. Roberts<\/a> look on. Not pictured, Stina "My name’s not Christina" Leicht.
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Meanwhile I worked the crowd, putting free issues of Space Squid and party invitations in the hands of as many warm bodies as I could. Or as the case may be, annoying people who are better than me, such as Joe R. Lansdale and Neal Barrett Jr.
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\nLuckily, they have no idea who the hell I am.<\/p>\n

That evening there was a relaxed dinner at the Hickory St. Bar and grill with the usual suspects, Steve Wilson, Chris Nakashima-Brown and Lawrence Person (in the lit foreground).
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\nBelow, Tales of the Secret City<\/a> contributor Patrick Sullivan wonders why Squid editor D Chang ordered a children’s burger.
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\nLater, a bunch of us crashed Jayme Blashke’s room and swilled down his bottles of homebrewed jalapeno mead. Imagine having your nipples carressed with a blowtorch. Only with 15% alcohol.<\/p>\n

Sure there was an awards thing on Saturday (Michael Chabon’s acceptance speech was a sci-fi-pride manifesto as powerful as Obama’s reply to Wrightgate), but people are really only going to remember the Space Squid release party at B.D.Riley’s Bar and Grill, a benefit for "The Nerds Are Our Future Foundation."<\/p>\n

Below, in no particular order, Nebula Award Nominee and Space Squid contributor Jennifer Pelland <\/a>, Allen Wise, Mr. Jennifer Pelland (not his real name), Space Squid illustrator Chris Waltrip<\/a>, Fred Stanton, Original Squid Grrrl Cecil Clorox, Robert L. Reed, and Space Squid contributor Jeremey Malish.
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A shocking number of attendees allowed themselves to be badgered into reading for the 15min improv fiction contest. The overall genre trope was "Cold Sleep."<\/p>\n

MC Matthew Bey prompts the audience for stream-of-consciousness story props while avoiding competing in the contest himself
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Robert L. Reed, using the prop "Stupid Red Hat" wrote a touching story about grandma dropping into a cold sleep capsule, and leaving a note in her sunday hat for her grandson.<\/p>\n

D Chang wrote with the prop "Box of Space Squid" and told about the streets of Cairo and filthy urchins selling contaminating Space Squid issues on street corners.
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Jennifer Pelland, writing with the prop "Stupid Red Hat", took the opportunity to engage in self-indulgent wish fulfillment. Let’s hope she doesn’t really trap her husband in a cryopod.
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Writing from the prop "The Hennessey Sisters Who Are Sitting Right Next to the MC" (pictured at the lower right), Contest winner Paige Roberts spins a tear-jerking tail about space pirates, bull semen, and the benefits of taking your cast-iron frying pan into the hibernation chamber with you.
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Allen Wise somehow writes for fifteen minutes without once mentioning mighty thews or wenches.
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From the prop "Beer Bottle" Nancy Jane Moore<\/a> comes up with a story about a south-austin Irish-ghetto cryo-clinic where they use bottles of Guiness to put you to sleep until better days roll around.
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Second place contest winner Jessica Reisman<\/a> reads about a future dystopia where squid grrrls rule
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Third place winner Patrick Sullivan tells how one can indeed sustain horrible head trauma from Dick Cheny.
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The Hennessey sisters explain to Paige Roberts that in Montana they don’t sue, they come after you with a skillet.
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