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Guest Profile
Bud Webster
Bud Webster published his first SF story, "Bubba Pritchert and the Space Aliens," in Analog in 1994, subsequently winning the magazine's Analytical Laboratory award for Best Short Story. Two years later "The Three Labors of Bubba" won Analog's Analytical Laboratory award for Best Novelette. His narrative SF hobo poem, "The Ballad of Kansas McGriff," took first place in the National Hobo Association's Music and Poetry Festival in 2000.
He's also written non-fiction extensively, including essays in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Gale's Supernatural Fiction Writers, seven (so far) "Curiosities" pieces for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and is a contributing editor for the SFWA Bulletin, with a column examining the history of science fiction and fantasy through the pages of classic anthologies called Anthopology 101. He's poetry editor for the online quarterly, Helix SF, for which he also writes a popular column on the history of science fiction called "Past Masters." In addition, he's written the definitive bio-bibliography of master anthologist Groff Conklin, titled 41 Above the Rest: A Checklist and Index to the Anthologies of Groff Conklin, as well as The Joy of Booking: Webster's Guide to Buying and selling Used SFand Fantasy Books (SRM Publisher), both of which are available at his table in the dealers' room.
He lives in Richmond, Virginia with a very patient Significant Other and three damn cats.
