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Conventions Etc.
2010
- Until 21 February 2010 • Steampunk Art (exhibition), Oxford
- 12-14 February 2010 • SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
- 20 February 2010 • Ghouls on Film (women in horror), Birmingham
- 24 February - 27 March 2010 • Nineteen Eighty-Four (play adaptation), Manchester
- 27 February 2010 • Picocon 27, Imperial College, London
- 5-7 March 2010 • P-Con 7, Dublin
- 12-14 March 2010 • Final Breakout (Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 19-21 March 2010 • Corflu Cobalt, Winchester
- Sold out 25-29 March 2010 • World Horror Convention, Brighton
- 26-29 March 2010 • Edge of the Wild (Tolkien art exhibition), Moreton-in-Marsh
- 27-28 March 2010 • Hi-Ex (comics), Inverness
- 2-5 April 2010 • Odyssey 2010 (Eastercon), Heathrow, London
- 3-4 April 2010 • Invasion Dublin (Star Wars), Dublin
- 28 April - 3 May 2010 • Sci-Fi London (film), London
- 2 May 2010 • Vortex II (Doctor Who), Belfast
- 8 May 2010 • Write Fantastic 5th Anniversary Event, Oxford
- 7-9 May 2010 • Echo-1 (Starfury), Heathrow. London
- 11-13 June 2010 • SF Foundation Criticism Masterclass, London
- 11-13 June 2010 • T2 (Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 12 June 2010 • Alt.Fiction, Derby
- 25-27 June 2010 • L7 (Starfury), Birmingham
- 13-15 August 2010 • Festival in the Shire (Tolkien), Machynlleth
- 20-22 August 2010 • Wadfest (Discworld), Retford, near Nottingham
- 26-29 August 2010 • Tricon (Eurocon; joint Czech, Polish and Slovak hosting), Cieszyn/Cesky Tesin, Poland/Czech Republic
- 26-30 August 2010 • Frightfest (film), London
- 27-30 August 2010 • Discworld Convention, Birmingham
- 2-6 September 2010 • Aussiecon 4 (68th Worldcon), Melbourne, Australia [former bid site has presupporter list]
- 10-12 September 2010 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 10-12 September 2010 • Reunion (media), Daventry
- 17-19 September 2010 • Fantasycon, Nottingham
- 18-25 September 2010 • Milford (UK) SF Writers' Conference, Snowdonia
- 24-26 September 2010 • Da'Con, Thurrock, Essex
- Cancelled: 25-27 September 2010 • Albacon, Glasgow
- 9-10 October 2010 • NewCon 5, Northampton
- 16-17 October 2010, Octocon, Dublin
- 15-17 October 2010 • Festival of Fantastic Films, location TBA
- 6 November 2010 • BristolCon '10, Bristol
- 12-14 November 2010 • Armadacon 22, Plymouth
- 12-14 November 2010 • Novacon 40, Nottingham
- 18-21 November 2010 • Thought Bubble (comics), Leeds
- 26-28 November 2010 • Vampire Ball(Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 26-28 November 2010 • WexWorlds (sf festival), Wexford, Ireland
2011
- 25-27 February 2011 • Redemption 11 (multimedia sf), Coventry
- 17-19 June 2011 • Eurocon 2011 (Eurocon), Stockholm, Sweden
- 17-21 August 2011 • Renovation (69th Worldcon), Reno, NV, USA
2012
- 16-20 August 2012 • The Return of the Ring (Tolkien Society), Loughborough University
Future Convention Bids Etc
- ? 2011 • Eaton Conference (academic) – call for papers
- ? 2011 • North American Discworld Convention – call for bids
- 22-25 April 2011 • Illustrious (Eastercon), Birmingham NEC
- Chicago in 2012 (Worldcon)
- Texas in 2013 (Worldcon)
- Zagreb in 2013 (Worldcon) reported here [website awaited]
- UK in 2014 (Worldcon) Google discussion group signup
- Japan in 2017 (Worldcon)
Other
- Doctor Who Exhibitions (UK)
- Eastercons (UK); more
- Eurocons (European SF Society)
- RPG cons (UK/Irish)
- Worldcons
Infinitely Improbable
February 2010
• William Tenn/Phil
Klass (1920-2010);
SFE entry
• DUFF 2010 site and
ballot
•
Amazon
links to Macmillan books
return
•
Amazon
vs Macmillan: authors are worried,
three days after
Amazon "capitulated" (3 Feb);
"Amazon
Capitulated My Ass";
will
HarperCollins be next?;
SFWA
drops Amazon links
•
Locus
Recommended Reading List for 2009
January 2010
•
Twilight
films boost fantasy novel sales (Telegraph, 31 Jan)
•
M.
John Harrison slams the "new" Wyndham novel (Guardian
30 Jan)
•
Amazon
vs Macmillan; commentary at
Making
Light
(and
more),
Whatever,
BoingBoing,
Charlie
Stross, Scott
Westerfeld; A271/links
•
SF
Magazines Too Wide-Ranging And Eclectic ...?
• Terry
Pratchett's Dimbleby lecture, 1 Feb;
preview story
•
Boris
Johnson on Avatar (Telegraph)
•
2010
BSFA Award shortlist
•
"Ursula
Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement" (Guardian);
petition
• 2010
Aeon Award opens
•
More
cover whitewash at Bloomsbury US;
apology
and withdrawal
• Harry Potter
Fandom Telethon online, in aid of Haiti (23 Jan)
•
Neil
Gaiman profile (New Yorker)
• RUSA
Reading List awards
•
Gormenghast
sequel (Telegraph 14 Jan)
•
Kage
Baker: bad news, support needed;
worse
news
•
As
the BBC Sees Us
•
More
from Le Guin on the Google settlement
•
"Sci-fi
and fantasy Londonium" gallery (Telegraph)
• Hitchens
on Ballard (Atlantic)
•
Dick
estate vs Google, claiming rights to word "Nexus";
Independent
•
Doctor
Who ginger agenda shock horror (Telegraph 7 Jan)
•
"Beware
of Science Fiction"
•
Alien
tastes revealed (Telegraph)
• Aussiecon
4 Hugo nominations open
• Happy New Year!
December 2009
•
Internet
Review of SF to close
•
Sir
Peter Jackson (BBC)
• 2010 FAAn Awards ballot
• 2010
TAFF results (23 Dec)
•
Harlan
Ellison Denies Meaning What He Wrote
•
Coming
soon: Sir Patrick Stewart (Mirror)
• Borders
UK may close forever on 22 December;
Orion/Gollancz
embargo horror at closing sale
• Ursula
K. Le Guin: open letter of resignation from US Authors Guild (18
Dec)
•
"Science
Fiction Goes McDonald's: Less Taste, More Gristle" (Huffington
Post)
•
"The
Vampirization of America", or Thog's Dept of Unhelpful
Political Metaphor (LA Times)
•
Grand
Master Joe Haldeman
•
Peter
Watts
experiences
US
border hospitality;
more;
still
more;
"Help Defend Peter Watts"
• Robert Holdstock, 1948-2009:
Guardian,
Times
•
Frazetta
Family
Values
• Top
100
SF
Magazine
Covers (a work
in progress)
•
H.P.
Lovecraft and fandom
•
Black
Matrix: one-fifth of a cent per word! (John Scalzi)
•
PW
editor abused for polite clarification re coverage of Famous Robert
Stanek
November 2009
•
"Excessive
Candour, rescued"
•
On
cosy catastrophes (Guardian 25 Nov)
• 2001:
A Who Odyssey
•
Steve
Holland channels Thog
•
Vatican
on Twilight films (Telegraph)
•
BBC
Paradox: not mere sci-fi
•
Liyi
Brunner remembers (BBC)
•
Harlequin
expands into vanity publishing; writers' organizations react and
so
does Small Beer Press
• 2010 GUFF race
begins
•
Moorcock
Who? (Guardian 16 Nov)
• International
SF Reshelving Day ... a
bad idea, and now it's dead
•
Terry
Goodkind: "I don't write fantasy";
more
here
•
Terminator
franchise for sale;
Joss
Whedon makes an offer
• Ayn
Rand biographies reviewed (Slate 2 Nov) – with
gratuitous mention of L Ron Hubbard
•
World
Fantasy Awards (Locus)
•
PW
Best Books of 2009 (see SF/Fantasy/Horror section)
October 2009
•
The
future we live in is too safe
• Science Fantasy
News (1948-1960) online archive
•
What
scares horror writers? (Washington Post, 28 Oct)
•
"Did
James Cameron Rip Off Poul Anderson ...?" (io9)
• Remembering the Star Wars
Holiday Special (xkcd)
•
Ellison/Paramount
lawsuit settled
•
Happy
Birthday, Ursula Le Guin (PW 21 Oct);
SFWA
•
Tarzan
is 97 (LA Times 20 Oct)
• Pratchett
video competition for ages 10 to 17 (Guardian)
•
Tom
Deitz exhibition online
•
"Are
we now post scifi?" (Guardian 13 Oct)
•
Bewailing
the horrid consequences of letting women into sf (9 Oct)
• Astral
Leauge album downloads!
•
Hobbit
film
funding
imperilled?
• Banned
from
Octocon!
More;
FPI
summary.
Ban
retracted (8 Oct) after huge negative publicity for
Octocon.
• 2010 TAFF
ballot (Word) |
HTML
•
Hollywood
vs children's fiction
•
"Richard
Ridyard",
serial
plagiarist
•
Fantasy
Magazine flash fiction/graphics contest (1 Oct)
