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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. The next Chiller Theatre Expo, which focuses on toys, models and film, will be held Oct. 5-7 at the Hilton in Parsippany, N.J. Guests include Elvira, Val Kilmer, Henry Winkler and Catherine Bach. For more information, visit www.chillertheatre.com.

The 5th Philippine Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, New Worlds 5, will be held Oct. 27, 2007, at the Glorietta Activity Center in -- you guessed it -- The Philippines. For more information, visit www.newworlds.ph.

This weekend, at Nippon2007, the 65th Worldcon, in Yokohama, Japan, it was officially announced that the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (or WorldCon) will be held in Montreal, Quebec, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from Aug. 6- 10, 2009. The guest of honor will be Neil Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Good Omens, Fragile Things) and Julie Czerneda (The Trade Pact Universe Trilogy, Web Shifters series, Species Imperative series) will be Master of Ceremonies. The organizing committee for the bid is Anticipation and you can get more information at www.anticipationsf.ca. Congratulations Montreal science fiction fans and all those who worked hard on the bid to bring WorldCon there!

I've already received information for conventions in 2008. For now, I'll post them here. But I hope to have a searchable database of events and venues ready before the end of the year. If you'd like to help speed that project along, visit the Support page. February 21-24, 2008 Total Confusion Mansfield, Mass Holiday Inn Focus: Gaming www.totalcon.com March 21-24, 2008 Orbital 2008 2008 British National Science Fiction Convention London, United Kingdom Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow www.orbital2008.org Read more »

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