The World Horror Convention, first instituted in 1991, is finally leaving North America and being held across the pond. This year’s convention will be held March 25-28 at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton, Sussex. Horror has often been a reflection of the challenges being faced by authors and society. In fact, Mary Shelley herself […]
A new science fiction and fantasy literary convention will debut in downtown Toronto Nov. 19-21, 2010, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. Called SFContario, it already has some spiffy confirmed guests of honour: Michael Swanwick, 1991 Nebula Award winner for best novel: Stations of the Tide Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Editors for Tor Books For […]
Lucasfilm has chosen the Orange County Convention Center as the official site for Star Wars Celebration V in August 2010. Tickets go on sale Dec. 10, 2009. Star Wars Celebration is the official Lucasfilm event celebrating all things Star Wars and it is produced by fans for fans. They are the largest Star Wars parties, […]
Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, stars of the re-boot of Battlestar Galactica are confirmed guests of Basauri Con, an international science fiction convention held in Bilbao, Spain. For more information, visit www.basauricon.com.
To help me keep abreast of things happening in the SF/F/H worlds so I can share them with you, I subscribe to a number of Google Alerts. As I was looking through them today, I found this interesting blog post: The 2MTL Guide to Soloing Conventions In it, the author describes what it is like […]
Erg. I Tivo’d Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy last week. When I got to near the end of the movie …. bleep … Tivo cut off the ending. So now I don’t know how it ended. I hate when that happens! Why do I share? Because now […]
It now feels like billions and billions of years ago, but when I was 15 I received one of the best birthday presents. But the story doesn’t start there. You see, back then I was an avid Cosmos fan … pleading with my Dad to let me stay up to watch an entire episode of […]
The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, to be held Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, features the stars of the 1969 cult classic film The Green Slime, known for it’s low budget special effects and over the top theme song. The Green Slime Trailer Personally, I’ve never heard of the film, but what what […]
Will you be in Orlando, Fla., on Halloween? Then you might want to spend some time at the the Orlando Science Center, which will be holding it’s annual Spooktakular Science Extravaganza from noon to 4p.m. on Oct. 31. The event features costume contests, face painting and, of course, creepy science. Kids of all ages and […]
HP Fan Trips has recently announced the “Witches, Wands, and Wizardy in Boston…Oh my!” event, planned for Feb. 12 through 15, 2010. Special guest, Stan Ianevski, who portrayed Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, will host a storytelling evening during the event. Here’s a preliminary itinerary: February 12: Your adventure starts […]