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Conventions Etc.
2011
2012 | Overseas | Bids | London
- Until 23 January 2011 • Alien Invasion (exhibition), Portmouth
- Until 27 March 2011 • Shelley's Ghost (exhibition), Oxford and online
- 3-6 February 2011 • SFX Weekender 2, Camber Sands, East Sussex
- 4-6 February 2011 • Cre2c3ndo (filk), Grantham
- 5-6 February 2011 • QED (science/skeptics), Manchester
- 11-13 February 2011 • SF Ball (media), Bournemouth
- 19-20 February 2011 • Epic Con, NUIM Campus, Maynooth, Ireland
- 19 February 2011 • Picocon 28, Imperial College, London
- 25-27 February 2011 • Alt.Fiction writing weekend, South Leverton
- 25-27 February 2011 • Redemption 11 (multimedia sf), Coventry
- 26 February 2011 • Cardiff International Comic Expo, Cardiff
- 4-6 March 2011 • P-Con VIII, Dublin
- 10-24 March 2011 • Oxfam Bookshop SF Spectacular, Reading
- Cancelled 12 March 2011 • Conjour, Leeds
- 19 March 2011 • Fred Hoyle Project Grand Finale, Cambridge Science Festival
- 1-3 April 2011 • Echo-2 (Dollhouse; Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 22-25 April 2011 • Illustrious (Eastercon), Birmingham NEC
- 23-25 April 2011 • Invasion Dublin (Star Wars), Dublin
- 23 April - 2 May 2011 • Sci-Fi London (film), London
- 6-8 May 2011 • Invasion (Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 21-22 May 2011 • Middle-Earth Weekend, Sarehole, Birmingham
- 17-19 June 2011 • Eurocon 2011 (Eurocon), Stockholm, Sweden
- 24-26 June 2011 • T3: Rise of the Nerds (Terminator: SCC;Starfury), Heathrow, London
- 25-26 June 2011 • Alt.Fiction, Derby
- 17-21 August 2011 • Renovation (69th Worldcon), Reno, NV, USA
- 19-21 August 2011 • Wadfest (Discworld), Retford, near Nottingham
- 25-29 August 2011 • Frightfest (film), London
- 9-11 September 2011 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 23-25 September 2011 • Oxonmoot (Tolkien Society), Oxford
- 30 September - 2 October 2011 • Fantasycon 2011, Brighton
- 15-16 October 2011, Octocon, Dublin – first announcement
- 21-23 October 2011 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
- 22 October 2011 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 28-31 October 2011 • Bram Stoker International Film Festival, Whitby
- 4-7 November 2011 • Irish Discworld Convention, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
- 11-13 November 2011 • Armadacon 23, Plymouth
- 11-13 November 2011 • Novacon 40, Nottingham
2012
- 25-26 February 2012 • Satellite 3, Glasgow
- 6-9 April 2012 • Olympus 2012 (Eastercon), Heathrow, London – LiveJournal
- 16-20 August 2012 • The Return of the Ring (Tolkien Society), Loughborough University
- 30 August - 3 September 2012 • Chicon 7 (70th Worldcon) , Chicago
Future Convention Bids Etc
- Texas in 2013 (Worldcon), San Antonio. TX, USA
- Zagreb in 2013 (Worldcon) reported here [website awaited]
- 14-18 August 2014 • London in 2014 (Worldcon)
- ?22-24 August 2014 • Dublin in 2014 (Eurocon bid)
- 2-5 September 2016 • Kansas City in 2016 (Worldcon) – Twitter feed
- Japan in 2017 (Worldcon)
- New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon)
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Infinitely Improbable
January 2011
•
Harry
Potter/Willy the Wizard: US
judge dismisses plagiarism claim
• Steve
Aylett self-exposes
•
People's
Choice awards infested with Twilight
•
Moon
Hugo gloat
• Ellen
Datlow's Best Horror of the Year: call for 2011 submissions
•
BSFA
Awards nominations so far
• Hugo
nominations open (1 Jan)
December
2010
• More
on the Semiprozine/Fanzine Hugos
•
How
H.G. Wells scorned Bromley
• Harlan
Ellison vs. Hitler
• Geoffrey
Hoyle, futurologist
• The
Transformer that dares not speak its name
•
Is
Science Fiction Bad for Us?
• TAFF 2011
candidates revealed;
TAFF 2011 ballot
• TAFF
2011 – last call ...
leading to much
action!
•
Frazetta
estate feud, again (16 Dec)
• Renovation
(Worldcon 2011) PR3
• Infinity
Plus relaunches as ebook imprint
•
Incredibly
obscure Roald Dahl MS (PW, 13 Dec)
•
The
future of the Clarke Award
•
Naughty
Grimm's Fairy Tales in China
• Bookwhirl.com:
ten-foot pole warning
• Conjour
cancelled (3 Dec)
•
Shelley/Frankenstein
MS exhibition
November 2010
•
Hobbits
and racial purity
•
Greg
& Astrid Bear vs Project Gutenberg
• John
Steakley (1951-2010)
•
Alan
Moore as Santa Claus
• Maison
d'Ailleurs takes off
•
As
others see us, part 5,271,009
•
Roz
Kaveney wants a jetpack
•
R.I.P.
Paul "Gamma" Gamble
•
NBA:
fairy tales not allowed
•
2010
Nova awards
• Olympus 2012: fuller
website now up
•
Realms
of Fantasy: new owner, long spoon;
editors
unchanged
•
"They
move among us" (Observer, 7 Nov)
•
Autistica
charity auction: name a character in future work by Peter F
Hamilton, David Mitchell, Darren Shan, others
• Harry
Mulisch (1927-2010)
•
Supreme
Wisdom of Spock
Email list changes. All subscribers to the old Ansible mailing list (which died in September) should now have been invited to the new one. Details here.
October 2010
• Takeshi
Shudo (1948-2010)
•
Margaret
Atwood, in her copious spare time
•
SF
debated at Cheltenham Literary Festival
•
Omni
publisher Bob Guccione dies
•
China
Miéville impersonators
• Wiscon
discourtesy;
more;
more;
more
•
JKR
wins Hans Christian Andersen prize
• R.I.P.
Realms of Fantasy;
more;
more
•
Rudy
Rucker on Benoit Mandelbrot
• The
Doctor Who focus group
•
Willy
the Wizard persists (but is still unlikely to win)
•
Norton
Juster in person (PW)
• Donald
H Tuck (1922-2010)
• Armadacon
22 (Plymouth) venue change
• Eastercon
2011: an apology
• Renovation
Hugo base design competition
•
Terry
Pratchett's coat of arms (scroll down) (and yes,
I know what the
motto means)
•
J.K.
Rowling: Just when you thought it was safe ...
•
Uncertain
Futures: Americans and Science Fiction in the Early Cold War Era
(online exhibit)
September 2010
•
Atwood/Le
Guin debate
•
US
Banned Book Week
•
Dept
of Neurovampirology (Guardian)
• 2011 TAFF race;
LJ site
•
Harlan
Ellison to say goodbye
•
Eastercon
2011 hotel booking (LJ), as not posted on
the
official LJ linked from the
Illustrious website
• Warning
to tax-exempt US sf organizations
•
British
Fantasy Award results (Langford is gobsmacked. Thanks, voters!)
•
Yet
another Terry Pratchett interview (THE)
• E.C.
Tubb (1919-2010);
SF Encyclopedia
entry; funeral details
•
The
Last of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (New York Times)
•
China
Miéville in the Christian Science Monitor
•
Science
fiction as baleful influence
