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This category includes all posts on SF conventions: announcing them, attending them, running them, reviewing them.
Now, some authors have withdrawn their work due to the SP controversy. This, as I understand, is the final Hugo ballot. If you have never voted for the Hugos, 2015 is a good year to start! Become a supporting member of Sasquan and vote away! No need to actually go to Worldcon, as I found […]
Read More The new and final Hugo ballot!I have known about the now huge Polish SF convention in Poznan since Kontakt in Zagreb. And have been wanting to get to it ever since! When I got back from my GUFF trip to Australia and New Zealand, the Pyrkon program book for that year – a thick, heavy thing filled with awesome things […]
Read More Pyrkon 2015SFerKon 2015 will be held May 15-17, 2015, at FER (that’s the acronym for the Croatian name of the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing that has served as the venue for the largest Croatian con for 15 years now!) and the Guest of Honour will be the American writer Kate Elliott. […]
Read More SFeraKon 2015!At Swancon in 2013, Monday came and I had not had enough. At Eastercon this year, Monday came and I needed more rest. 🙂 Possibly because the Helsinki party was so great! I discovered a new kind of chips that alas are not sold outside of Finland. Another reason to bemoan the fact that I […]
Read More Dysprosium: MondayHearing about someone’s creative process has always seemed a bit voyeuristic to me. This does happen a lot at SF cons and is a very enjoyable part of panels. I started off my Sunday morning with just such a panel, on film this time. Scriptwriter Mark Stay and VFX Supervisor Paddy Eason presented how their […]
Read More Dysprosium: Sunday