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 […]
If you are on a quest to slay dragons, duel goblins and interact with creatures magical, then go to the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., go up to the third level and enter MagiQuest, the world’s largest live action fantasy game. The 12,000 square-foot adventure complex, just outside Sears, allows guests to step into […]
Florida SuperCon presents The Fantasy Twi-Life Tour featuring the stars of Twilight in Fort Lauderdale this December 4 through 6 at The Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel. The Fantasy Twi-Life Tour is a Twilight themed celebrity convention tour that will travel across the U.S. in through next year. Each stop on the Fantasy Twi-Life Tour […]
Would you believe that on October 27, 1934, a small group of fans of the emerging new genre of science fiction. The club, called the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS), has been the “breeding ground” for some now very well-known SF authors, such as Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, David Gerrold, Ray Harryhausen, […]
Sometimes you can find genre fiction in very non-genre-y places. Take the Sudden Fiction series of books, of which I recently finished reading the third in the series, Sudden Fiction (Continued). These books are a celebration of what has been called flash fiction, sudden fiction, very short fiction, and more. Basically, these are extremely short […]
In line with this month’s feature on fantasy hotels, I found this little wonder in Amsterdam on YouTube.
A few weeks ago, I saw this article on Yahoo! about the “World’s Weirdest Hotels” and a little later, I saw in an issue of Endless Vacation and article about “one-of-a-kind hotels. But what really drew me to these articles was that a lot of these hotels had genre themes. Imagine going on a vacation […]
Harry Potterâ„¢ fans will get the chance to step inside the famous wizard’s magical world through Harry Potter: The Exhibition, which opens at the Museum of Science in Boston, on October 25, 2009 and runs through February 21, 2010. The Museum of Science is the first East Coast venue to host the exhibition and the […]
Animation Supercon is set for October 2-4, 2009, in Miami, Fla., at The Doubletree Miami Airport Hotel and Convention Center. Special guests include the cast of Matt Groening’s science fiction animated TV show Futurama: Billy West (Philip J. Fry), John Dimaggio (Bender), Phil Lammar (Hermes Conrad) and Maurice LaMarche (“Additional Voices”). Also making an appearance […]
Fans of the fantasy films from Harry Potter to Twilight will be converging in Bonn, Germany this October 2-4 for the 8th Annual Ring*Con. Actors from the Harry Potter movies, Lord of the Rings films, Twilight, and more will be guests of honor. Educational programs include presentations such as, The Influence of Tolkien on Fantasy […]