Guests Emeritus

Two of our former Guests of Honour, Ken MacLeod and Charles Stross, are planning to join us at Satellite 9 (professional commitments permitting). Ken and Charlie have been stalwart supporters of Satellite since the beginning, and both are lifetime Guests Emeritus (along with Satellite 3’s Apocrypha of Honour, Fluff the Plush Cthulhu).

Ken MacLeod

Ken was GoH of Satellite 1 in 2007. He is a prolific writer whose novels have been nominated for Locus, Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C Clarke Awards. Amongst his most popular works are the Fall Revolution series and the Engines of Light trilogy. Ken was GoH of the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow 2024.

Ken’s bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Ken_Macleod

Ken’s blog: https://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/

Charles Stross

Charlie was GoH of Satellite 3 in 2012. Perhaps best known for his Merchant Princes and Laundry Files series, he has won many awards including the Locus Award for Best SF Novel in 2006, the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2013 and the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2005, 2010 and 2014.

Charlie’s bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Charles_Stross

Charlie’s blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/

Fluff the Plush Cthulhu

Everyone’s favourite plush Elder God, His Malevolence Fluff is usually to be found in the company of his Chief Minion, Feorag. His hobbies include eating brains… eating brains… and, well, eating brains.

Fluff’s photo gallery: https://www.feorag.com/fluffcthulhu/