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Welcome to The Genre Traveler! Please sign up using the form to the right so that you'll get all the latest updates to the site. You also might want to sign up for the RSS feed, which you can do via email or your favorite RSS Reader. As I mentioned in my February 16 post, I'm going to the Lost Weekend Fan Party tonight. I'm looking forward to dancing the night away with my honey bunny (aka husband), possibly taking some pictures of me doing genre-y stuff for the editorial page of The Genre Traveler, and maybe landing an interview with a Lost cast or crew member. I'm going to be logging off right after I finish this post to start picking out what I'm going to wear. Yep, I procrastinated that one. But then, its not like I'm going to wear a dress or anything. The only dress I own fits my thin body, not the one I'm currently inhabiting. Besides, the only shoes I have are Reeboks (long story) and they don't go very well with dresses. Anyway, if anyone reading this post is going, come find me and say "Hi!" I'll be the one wearing black Reeboks. For More Information: www.lost-radio.com/lostweekend

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Until I can get the searchable database developed and running, I'm stuck with listing cons in each issue and, if I miss some, here in the blog. Here is a list of ones coming up during the first half of next month.

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April 5-8: Norwescon 30
Seatac, Washington
Guests include: Kim Stanley Robinson.
Focus: SF
www.norwescon.org

April 5 - 9: SwanCon
Perth, Western Australia
Guests include: Elizabeth Moon, David Gerrold and Matthew Reilly
Focus: SF, F, H
www.swancon.com

April 6 - 9: Eastercon (Contemplation)
Liverpool, England (UK)
Guests include: Judith Clute, Peter Dickinson and Robin McKinley
Focus: SF, F
contemplation.conventions.org.uk

April 6-8: Minicon 42
Minneapolis, MN
Guests include: Charles de Lint
Focus: SF
www.mnsf.org/minicon

April 12 - 15: Baycon
Exeter, England (UK)
Focus: Gaming
www.robchapman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/baycon.html

April 13 - 15: Grand Slam Sci-Fi Summit
Burbank, Calif.
Guests include: Walter Keonig, George Takei and James Marsters
Focus: SF Media
creationent.com/cal/stgs.htm

April 13 - 15: Odyssey Con VII
Madison, Wi.
Guests include: Joan D. Vinge, Jack McDevitt and Christopher Jones
Focus: SF and gaming
www.oddcon.com

April 13 - 15: RoundCon
Columbia, S.C.
Focus: Gaming
www.roundcon.com

April 13 - 15: Willycon IX
Wayne, Neb.
Guests include: Paul Lawrence, James Alan Gardner and Taki Soma
Focus: SF, F
wildcat.wsc.edu/clubs/willycon

April 13 - 15: Middle Tenessee Anime Convention
Nashville, Tenn.
Guests include: Lisa Furukawa
Focus: Anime
www.mtac.net

April 13 - 16: OLNFC 4
Leicester, England (UK)
Focus: Leonard Nimoy
www.theofficialleonardnimoyfanclub.com/conventionpage.html

April 14: O-Conn
Helotes, Texas
Guests: Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther
Focus: Anime
www.o-conn.org

April 14 - 15: Armageddon: Pop Culture Expo
Christchurch, New Zealand
Guests include: Steve Blum, Kevin Weisman and Vic Mignogna
Focus: SF, F, Comics
www.pulpexpo.com

April 14 - 15: Star One
Bedford, England (UK)
Guests include: Paul Darrow, Angela Bruce and John Leeson
Focus: Blakes 7
www.tenthplanet.co.uk/starone

April 15: Comic Book and Non-Sport Card Show
Dunn Loring, Va.
Focus: Comics
www.capicons.com/070415_ty.htm

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For those of you who like to write science fiction, fantasy or horror, you might consider attending Odyssey: The Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop in June. The application deadline is April 15, 2007. The six-week course will be taught by Jeanne Cavelos, former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell and winner of the World Fantasy Award.

Details:
When: June 11-July 20, 2007
Where: Sait Anselm College, Manchester, NH
For more info: www.sff.net/odyssey

Do you like Dean Koontz? Do you have a video camera, digital camera, cellphone, or any other device that can make videos? Do you have a YouTube account? Then you might want to enter Spectra's new "Shoot The Good Guy" contest.

All you need to do is create a book trailer for Koontz's new novel, The Good Guy, due out on May 29, 2007. The creator of the winning book trailer will receive $5,000. For more information and complete entry rules, visit www.thegoodguytrailercontest.com. Contest ends May 1, 2007.

The recent world premiere (March 13, 2007) in Cairo of Princess of the Sun, a French animated film set in ancient Egypt, has Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) a little bent out of shape.

This fantasy movie, directed by Philippe Leclerc, is set during the reign of King Akhenaten's reign. For those of you who don't know, King Akhenaten was King Tutankhamun's father and raised much ire during his reign for his monotheistic beliefs.

Hawass has released an official statement stating accepted history and how the movie portrayed fictional events and characters. (Imagine that -- an animated movie with fictional events and characters set along with real ones. How shocking!)

To allow the release of this film in Egypt, the SCA asked the Egyptian film distributor, Good News Group, to counsel the audience (in both English and Arabic) that the story is a fantasy and that it has nothing to do with real ancient Egyptian historical facts.

Gilles Adriens and Hadrien Soulez Lariviere wrote the script for Princess of the Sun based on an original work by Christian Jacq.

For More Information
King Akhenaten
www.heptune.com/Akhnaten.html
www.touregypt.net/18dyn10.htm
www.egyptologyonline.com/akhenaten1.htm

Historial Inacuricies of the Film
guardians.net/hawass/articles/princess_of_the_sun.htm

Princess of the Sun
www.unifrance.org/films/detail_film.asp?cfilm=25025&CommonUser=&langue=21002

This Just In

Profiles in History, the U.S.' leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic original historical autographs, letters, documents, vintage signed photographs and manuscripts, will hold an auction of rare Hollywood memorabilia on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. (PT).

Items of interest to genre fans include:

• Christopher Reeve's costume from the first Superman movie


• One of Val Kilmer's Batsuits from Batman Forever


• A Wicked Witch of the West "Winkie" guard costume from The Wizard of Oz


• Leonard Nimoy's Spock tunic from the first season of Star Trek


• An H.R. Giger Alien creature suit


• Arnold Schwarzenegger's costume from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines


• Hugh Jackman's Wolverine claws from X-Men 2


• Samuel L. Jackson's stunt-fighting lightsaber from Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones


• The Staff of Ra headpiece from the original Raiders of the Lost Ark

DETAILS:
What: Profiles in History's 27th Auction
Where:
Profiles in History's Calabasas Hills offices and gallery
26901 Agoura Road, Suite 150
Calabasas Hills, Calif.
When: Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. (PT)