Notable past winners of WOTF include Stephen Baxter, Karen Joy Fowler, James Alan Gardner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jay Lake, Michael H. Payne, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Nancy Farmer, and David Zindell.

Manuscripts are blind-judged ( with names deleted ), and are separated out in quarterfinal and semifinal award rounds by the Coordinating Judge ( currently K. D. Wentworth, previously Dave Wolverton during much of the 1990s, and originally Algis Budrys ).

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On My Way to Paradise is a novel by Dave Wolverton and was published in 1989 by Bantam Books.

* Wolverton, Dave On My Way to Paradise ( 1989 )-Originally published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol.

He marries Princess Leia Organa in the book The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton and their three children go on to be major Expanded Universe characters in their own right, appearing as lead characters in several books and other media.

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Jude Watson, is the primary author of the series, although the first book was written by Dave Wolverton.

* The Rising Force, by Dave Wolverton

The Rising Force by Dave Wolverton is the first in a series of young reader novels called Jedi Apprentice.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

O'Banion drew his guns and fired at Dave, severely wounding him in the stomach.

Roberta and Dave began to back toward the door.

At the door, Dave paused to feel for the latch.

Dave had the latch under his thumb now and he removed his arm from his wife in order to pull the door open.

The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside door was a hundred miles.

As she reached Dave and felt his arm go around her, felt him pull her to the safety of his person, she knew with the certainty of despair that something bad had happened to Lauren.

The two men watched as Dave closed the door behind them, watched them cross the sidewalk to their car.

`` Dave.

Dave made some sound meant to convey agreement.

Dave said, `` I got the message.

-- George Kerr, the swift-striding Jamaican, set a meet record in the 600-yard run in the Knights of Columbus track meet tonight, beating Purdue's Dave Mills in a hot duel in 1.10.1.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

Other lettermen from the team that compiled a 21-9 record and finished as runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament were: Art Hambric, Donnell Reid, Bill Nordmann, Dave Harris, Dave Luechtefeld and George Latinovich.

Scherer also had a big night at bat with four hits in five trips including a double, Len Boehmer also was 4-for-5 with two doubles and Dave Ritchie had a home run and a triple.

Dave Trager, who is quite a showman and boss of Chicago's new pro basketball Packers, is debuting a new International club, for the exclusive use of season ticket holders, in the Stock Yards Inn.

Show spotlights the Kings -- George Worth, Bill Kay, Frank Ciciulla and Gene Wilson, flanked by Dave Grossman and Ron Stevens.

Pualani and Randy Avon, Dave Searles, George ( Papa ) Gill, Al Bandish, Jim Morgart, Bob Neil at the Mouse Trap.

`` I'm sorry, Dave.

Dave ate two pieces of pie as he did everything else, slowly, methodically and with interest.

`` Don't worry about it, Dave.

Dave shrugged on his sports coat and picked up the car keys.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

( The oldest football stand in the world is considered to belong to Great Yarmouth Town, though Wolverton A. F. C.

which featured Mad stalwart Sergio Aragonés and frequent cover art by Basil Wolverton, but was less slavish in its Mad mimicry, relying more on one-page gags and horror-based comedy.

Leaving Milton Keynes at Wolverton, the canal runs on a high embankment before passing over the Great Ouse at Cosgrove " Iron Trunk " aqueduct.

Although Wolverton and Lyman still consider U. vitabilis an " apparent precursor to modern black bears ", it has also placed within U. americanus.

The bridge was a twin to another covered bridge built in 1857 by Silas Wolverton that was located 200 ft ( 61 m ) to the west of the Lime Valley Covered Bridge.

His editors, Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman, who also drew covers and stories, gave assignments to such prominent and highly accomplished freelance artists as Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood.

Wolverton is a city in Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States.

Wolverton Township is a township in Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States.

The name West Long Branch appears in the 1889 Wolverton Atlas of Monmouth County.

The original concept name and design of Human Potential began in the aftermath of the failed prophecies of Armstrong as outlined in 1975 in Prophecy !, written by Armstrong and illustrated by Basil Wolverton.

Wolverton works in Buckinghamshire had been established by the London and Birmingham Railway in the 1830s, and since 1862 ( when all locomotive works had transferred to Crewe ) had been the LNWR's carriage works.

The locomotive workshops were established in 1838 at Wolverton, roughly half-way between the two termini at London and Birmingham.

These workshops remained in use as a manufacturing facility up until the 1980s ; today just a few parts of the original Wolverton railway works are used solely for rolling stock maintenance and repair.

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