Eric M. Van is a professional sabermetrician who has spent all of his spare time in the last year working on this convention (he has been Program Chair, Co-Chair, or Chair Emeritus for every Readercon) rather than looking for new employment (ideally in the media), working on the massive outline of his novel Imaginary, or refining his neuroscience ideas. He was database manager for the Philip K. Dick Society; his observations on PKD have appeared in the New York Review of Science Fiction. He has an interview in the hardcover edition of Voices 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. He writes rock criticism for local zine The Noise, and contributes to the web sites of reunited Boston rock legends Mission of Burma (www.missionofburma.com and www.obliterati.net). At the turn of the millennium he spent four years at Harvard University, as a Special Student affiliated with the Graduate Department of Psychology, and hopes to return full-time to the field within the next few years if he can ever decide which of his many theories he should go public with first. He lives (and sleeps erratically) in Watertown, Massachusetts.