Eric M. Van was a World Fantasy Award finalist (Special Award, Non-Professional) in 2010 for his work as co-C.E.O. and longtime Program Chair of this very convention. Many years previously, he was database manager for the Philip K. Dick Society; his observations on PKD have appeared in the New York Review of Science Fiction. The outline (really a skeleton draft) for his novel Imaginary is approaching 80,000 words in length. A former Baseball Operations consultant for the Boston Red Sox, he hopes to have found a new sabermetrics job by the time this appears. He has an interview in the hardcover edition of Interviews from Red Sox Nation (ed. David Laurilia), is a co-author of The Red Sox Fan Handbook (ed. Leigh Grossman), has contributed to The Boston Globe and still contributes to Red Sox message board the Sons of Sam Horn. A former rock critic for local 'zines and the semi-official historian of reunited Boston rock legends Mission of Burma, he now does more film and TV criticism (mostly for his blog). At the turn of the millennium he spent four years at Harvard University, as a Special Student affiliated with the Graduate Department of Psychology. He has just begun work on Feeling the Future: Where Feelings Come From and What They Mean, the first of at least three planned books presenting his paradigmatic neuroscience ideas. He lives (and sleeps erratically) in Watertown, Massachusetts.