Highlights from past ArmadilloCons

Guest of Honor, author Mary Doria Russell presented with a birthday cake on her 50th birthday at ArmadilloCon 2000
Authors Vernor Vinge (Guest of Honor) and Elizabeth Moon at the "Building An Alien Society From The Ground up" panel at ArmadilloCon 2003
Rob Landley makes liquid nitrogen ice cream in the ConSuite at ArmadilloCon 2004
Artist R. Cat Conrad and his rendition of fantasy world at Interactive Fantasy World Building panel at ArmadilloCon 2004
Guest of honor Charles Stross (right) is talking with Wil McCarthy, scientist, science fiction author, and popularizer of programmable matter idea at ArmadilloCon 2005
Texas author Julia Mandala at ArmadilloCon 2005
Celtic band Brobdingnagian Bards and author Rie Sheridan at their performance at ArmadilloCon 2005
Chris Roberson, author GoH Charles Stross, and editor GoH Jim Minz on the Space Opera panel at ArmadilloCon 2005
Texas authors Julia Mandala (left) and Linda Donahue at ArmadilloCon 2005
Texas authors Brad Denton (left) and Caroline Spector play in their band Two-Headed Baby at ArmadilloCon 2005
Inflatable spaceships and astronauts at a room party at ArmadilloCon 2005
GoH Charles Stross, Faye Ringel, and Damien Broderick on the The New Weird Movement in SF Literature panel at ArmadilloCon 2005
Fan Guest of Honor Grant Kruger at ArmadilloCon 2006
Authors Chris Roberson and Julie Kenner, teachers at the ArmadilloCon 2007 writers' workshop, are having too much fun
Editor GoH Sharyn November and author Louise Marley at ArmadilloCon 2007
Robot Group booth with a purple alien robot at ArmadilloCon 2007
Robot Group booth with a grey alien robot at ArmadilloCon 2007
Bill Crider (left) and author Joe Lansdale at ArmadilloCon 2007
ApolloCon organizers Shai Fenwick and Mark Hall at the traditional ApolloCon room party Houston fans always throw at ArmadilloCon
Left to right: authors Ellen Klages, Louise Marley, and Sharon Shinn at ArmadilloCon 2007
GoH John Scalzi at the writers' workshop, speaking to aspiring writers about the Power of Suck at ArmadilloCon 2008
Author special guest Joe Haldeman and his wife Gay, and editor GoH Sheila Williams at ArmadilloCon 2008
The artist Guest of Honor David Lee Anderson cuts the ArmadilloCon 30th anniversary cake at ArmadilloCon 2008; first row from the right: Kurt Baty, Rocky Kelley (with a camera), fan GoH Kelly Persons
Left to right: author GoH John Scalzi, Chris Roberson, Mark Finn and John Gibbons at ArmadilloCon 2008. John Scalzi established a No Lurkers rule. Whoever stopped by the circle of fans that surrounded him, had to join the circle and participate in conversation.
Left to right: author C. J. Mills, artist John Picacio, and author GoH John Scalzi on the Space Opera panel at ArmadilloCon 2008
Authors Steven Brust, GoH John Scalzi, and Martha Wells on Creating A Character panel at ArmadilloCon 2008
Austin author Patrice Sarath writes flash fiction at a party thrown by the Space Squid fanzine at ArmadilloCon 2008. The party involved a flash fiction contest.
Patty Wells, a fan Guest of Honor at ArmadilloCon 2008, is about to cut the cake at a Reno Worldcon bid party
Biomechanical action figures, created by Marvin Niebuhr from an Austin organization Robot Group, and exhibited in the ArmadilloCon 2008 dealer room
Texas author Martha Wells (center), surrounded by Troyce Wilson and Nancy Hightower at ArmadilloCon 2009
Audrey Lockwood, Marshall Maresca, and Nicole Duson -- students at ArmadilloCon 2009 writers workshop, years before Marshall and Nicole became teachers at the same workshop.
Michael and Linda Moorcock (right) present Howard Waldrop (left) with a Jack Trevor Story Memorial Prize at ArmadilloCon 2009
ArmadilloCon 2009 Guest of Honor, author Joan Vinge. In the background: local fan Kurt Baty and Australian author Jenny Blackford.
Writer and scientist Bob Mahoney explains orbital mechanics with hula hoops at ArmadilloCon 2009.
The Simpsons in their bunny slippers at an ArmadilloCon 2009 room party
Writers A. Lee Martinez (left) and Scott Lynch at an ArmadilloCon 2009 room party
Mark Finn in a fez at ArmadilloCon 2009
Steve Wilson and a metal squirrel at the Stump The Panel at ArmadilloCon 2009, where a team of writers find science-fictional and imaginary uses for various objects
Editor guest Anne Sowards and Guest of Honor Rachel Caine, teachers at the ArmadilloCon 2010 writers workshop
Left to right: toastmaster Nancy Kress, fan guest Elspeth Bloodgood, urban fantasy special guests Ilona and Gordon Andrews at the ArmadilloCon 2010 opening ceremony, where Nancy Kress gave a speech about a secret deal between Google and SFWA.
In one of the funniest ArmadilloCon toastmaster speeches in recent memory, Nancy Kress holds up a rather personal garment, allegedly belonging to editor Gardner Dozois, and speculated which famous author lipstick print was on it. Fan Guest of Honor Elspeth Bloodgood is laughing in the background.
Lady Absinthe in her steampunk costume at the ArmadilloCon 2010
Editor guest Anne Sowards (left), writing couple Ilona and Gordon Andrews at their special guest interview the ArmadilloCon 2010. Ilona talks about what it was like to grow up as a science fiction fan in the former Soviet Union, and be an immigrant writer in the US.
Austin fan Wendy in a steampunk outfit at the ArmadilloCon 2010.
David Chang writes on a clay tablet -- "the deadest of dead media" -- at a SF fanzine Space Squid party at the ArmadilloCon 2010.
The Lansdale family -- Joe, Karen, and Kasey -- at a room party at the ArmadilloCon 2010.
ArmadilloCon 2010 special guest Ilona Andrews in a kimono
Jayme Lynn Blaschke (left) leads students Allyson and Jason through a writing game at the ArmadilloCon 2011 writers' workshop. Playing the role of an evil editor, he gives tongue-in-cheek suggestions how to make their stories sellable.
Guest of honor Paolo Bacigalupi (left), and Pyr editor and author Lou Anders at the ArmadilloCon 2011 writers' workshop.
Costumer Raven (left) and author John Moore at the ArmadilloCon 2011 Consuite.
Authors Katy Stauber, Marshall Maresca, and Bruce Sterling analyzing the feasibility of the common ideas about the technological Singularity at the ArmadilloCon 2011.
Authors Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear at the ArmadilloCon 2011.
ArmadilloCon 2011 Special Guest, author Emma Bull at the ApolloCon, ConDFW and Fencon joint party. She may be instigating people to buy the memberships to all these other fine Texas conventions.
Lauren and Vivian, students at the ArmadilloCon 2012 writers' workshop, play a game of smelling and touching some substances while blindfolded, and coming up with five adjectives to describe those smells and textures.
A fan in a steampunk hat at the ArmadilloCon 2012.
Editor Jeremy Lassen and Editor Guest Liz Gorinsky chat during a break from teaching at the ArmadilloCon 2012 writers' workshop.
Author A. Lee Martinez and Sally Hamilton at the ArmadilloCon 2012.
Author Steven Brust (right) accidentally photobombs steampunk costumers at the ArmadilloCon 2012.
A woman dressed as the 7th Doctor, and Abby in the ArmadilloCon 2012 Consuite.
Left to right: Science Guest Sigrid Close (a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University), authors Patrice Sarath and Ada Palmer, and Guest of Honor Ted Chiang on Remembering the Future panel, debating whether time is real or an illusion at the ArmadilloCon 2014.

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Highlights from past ArmadilloCons