A trend I’ve noticed growing lately is the overlap of the belly dance and science fiction communities. When I was an active belly dancer in the early 1990s, many of my belly dance friends were also avid science fiction buffs. In fact, we used to meet at one our houses to watch Star Trek: The […]
I recently read Jack Finney’s novel, The Body Snatchers and was hit by the idea of a “Body Snatchers Tour of Northern California.” You see, the novel (at least the 1978 version I read — part of The Stephen King Horror Library) was set in Mill Valley, a town in Marin County just north of […]
The next Albany-Colonie SFF Extravaganza, a “quarterly” convention for science-fiction and fantasy collectors, is scheduled for Sunday, March 21, 2010. Since this is a convention for collectors, the emphasis is on the vendors who sell comics, toys, DVDs, and other collectibles. Which is probably why the price of admission is so low … only $3 […]
The world of comics (and I’m not talking stand up here) is both its own genre and part of speculative fiction at the same time … which is why I include it. Many comic book fans are also fans of science fiction, fantasy and or horror and many comics fall into one (or more) of […]
Hmmm. I seem to have heard this before … at least that’s what he said at WorldCon when I went several years ago. Anyway, Harlan Ellison is scheduled to be one of the Guests of Honor at MadCon this year. Held Sept. 24 to 26 in Madison, Wi., MadCon seems to be a science fiction […]
WisCon, which will be held this year May 27-31, is the first and foremost feminist science fiction convention in the world (so says the website). It encourages discussion, debate and extrapolation of ideas relating to feminism, gender, race and class. The convention honors writers, editors and artists whose work explores these themes and whose voices […]
Odyssey Con, affectionately called OddCon, will celebrate it’s 10th year April 16-18 at The Radisson Inn in Madison, Wi. This general interest Science Fiction and Fantasy convention features literary guests, panel discussions, demonstrations, film reviews, art work, musical acts, and more. Guests of Honor Author, Harry Turtledove “The Master of Alternate History” Editor’s Note: I […]
Sci-Fi On The Rock is Newfoundland’s premiere science fiction & fantasy convention. This year, they celebrate their 4th Convention on April 17 and 18. Here is the list of Guests of Honor so far: Actor, Casey Biggs Sci-Fi fans remember Casey best as Cardassian Gul (and eventually Leggit) Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. […]
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 […]
GateWorld has reported that Gatecon 2010 will be fan-run convention’s last. “Gatecon has had an incredible run, and the fans, actors, and studios have been amazingly supportive of us,” Richard Pasco, one of Gatecon’s owners, said in a press release, “but we have decided to go out on a high note after our tenth convention,†[…]