I am delighted to be the science guest-of-honour at Can*Con, which will be taking place September 9th to 11th at the Novotel Ottawa in our beautiful nation’s capital. Can*Con is one of the very best speculative literature conventions out there, chock-a-block full of fun and informative programming, supremely well-organized (water, pen and paper, and little alarm clocks at every panel!), and put together by some of nicest and hardest working people in this quadrant of the Galaxy. To be invited as the Science GoH is truly a wonderful honour. Thank you so much to Derek Künsken, Marie Bilodeau and the entire concom, and to Jim C. Hines for the great picture.