Tag: Worldcon
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Dublin2019 – Snapshots from a Worldcon
This is a limited selection of a series of random photos I have taken over four days of Worldcon. The organisation was great [REDACTED…
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Summer 2019 Events
As every year in Scotland, Edinburgh Book Festival is one of the main writing events to look forward to. Part of the Fringe Festival,…
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Going to Worldcon in August -planning on the way
Are you making plans to attend Worldcon this year? The 77th Edition of the most important convention in SFF is going to take place…
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Helsinki Worldcon 75 – snapshots
Just back today from Helsinki – my third Worldcon and a very interesting one. I’ll talk about some of my favourite stuff in another…
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Events – what to look forward in Summer 2017
There are a few events in the coming months worth mentioning in case you’re just making your plans for Summer. I have spoken in…
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Hugo Night and other winners
Worldcon 74 is nicely folding up, and it’s time for a recap. First of all, the location for 2018 – decided in MidAmCon II:…
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Hugo Award 2016 – Voting
Like last year, 2016 Hugo Award nomination has been affected by SP/RP slating issues, resulting in the nomination of works and authors (Chuck Tingle…
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Hugo Nominations 2016
There’s still about one month or so left to nominate people/zines for the Hugo Awards (and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New…
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Summer 2015 – Events not to be missed
Summer 2015 promises to be exciting, with a lot of things going on… While I can’t *sigh* possibly attend everything, there are some of them…
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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…
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Snapshots from LonCon 3
For the ones of you who have not made it to this amazing event, here a gallery of photos. Enjoy!
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Loncon3 – the Convention and the Hugo Awards
A WorldCon – i.e., the annual SF Word Convention – is an amazing event, culminating in the Hugo Awards night but also featuring a…
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Voting for Hugo Awards 2014
There are many great things about attending Sci-Fi Worldcons, and not just when they are organised in cities like London. One of them is…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I…
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Speculative Fiction Conventions – A world of its own (Eastercon Day 2)
One of the most interesting things about conventions – Eastercon doesn’t make any exception to this rule – is the possibility given to the…
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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…