6-8:00pm, Tuesday, October 22nd, 1996:
Lois McMaster Bujold entertained us with tales of writing and travelling and writing, with previews of the future of the Vorkosigan series.

2-4:00pm, Sunday, October 6th, 1996:
S. P. Somtow read and signed his books and talked about his film projects.

6-8:00pm, Wednesday, September 11th, 1996:
Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson and Kate Elliott read and signed their collabortive novel The Golden Key.

6-8:00pm, Wednesday, September 4th, 1996:
Wil McCarthy signed and read from his latest science fiction mystery novel, Murder in the Solid State.

2-4:00pm, Saturday, August 24th, 1996:
a party for Circlet Press with editrix Cecelia Tan and others.

Saturday, May 25th, 1996:
The honored and honorable Harlan Ellison cancelled due to health, and had yet to make good on his rescheduled appearance after nearly two decades.

Sunday, April 14th, 1996:
Janet Berliner read and signed from her dark fantasy/Holocaust novel Child of The Light (co-written with George Guthridge), the first volume of the “Madagascar Manifesto” trilogy published by White Wolf.

6:00-8:00pm, Friday, April 5th, 1996:
Fantasy author and dispenser of Rat Oil J. V. Jones read and signed her new novel, A Man Betrayed. In honor of her first novel, the best-selling The Baker’s Boy, there was a special OCH Bake-Off judged by Ms. Jones herself!

2:00pm, Saturday, January 20th, 1996:
Suzy McKee Charnas read her story “Beauty and the Opera, or the Phantom Beast”.

3:30-5:30pm, Friday, January 19th, 1996:
Octavia E. Butler spoke on being a recipient of a 1995 MacArthur “genius” grant, and how she grew as a writer.