Eurocon 2018, France, 19-21 July
In case you have a free weekend in front of you and you’re not too far away from France, this is an event you might want to attend: Eurocon 2018, held from 19 to 21 July in the city of…
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Tag Archive: convention
Flaming the Eastercon (and the web) – The 2015 Hugo Controversy
If you had the impression by following the twitter feed of Dysprosium/ Eastercon 2015 (i.e. the Eastercon SF convention in the UK where, among others, the announcement of the Hugo nominations are given) that this year things have flamed out…
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SF from unusual perspectives: International Relations
That SF has often inspired astrophysicists and theoretical scientists is not something that should come as a surprise. After all, space elevators, while first theorised by the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, were made famous by Arthur C. Clarke in his…
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Eastercon 2014 – almost there!
Glasgow 18-21 April 2014, in what promises to be a great event. Puzzled? Eastercon (http://www.eastercon.org/index.php/Main_Page) is just another name for the British yearly science-fiction convention, and as the name says, it is held over the four days of the Easter…
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