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Conventions Etc.
2012
2013 | Overseas | Bids | London
- Until 22 February 2012 or later • Doctor Who Experience, London
- Until 6 March 2012 • From Idea to Publication (workshop), Nottingham
- Until 23 March 2012 • From Idea to Publication (workshop), Spalding
- 1-29 February 2012 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- 10-12 February 2012 • SF Ball (media; SFBevents home), Bournemouth
- 18 February 2012 • Live Video Lecture: Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction, online
- 18 February 2012 • Picocon 29, Imperial College, London
- 25-26 February 2012 • Cardiff International Comic Expo, Cardiff
- 25-26 February 2012 • Microcon, Exeter
- 25-26 February 2012 • Satellite 3, Glasgow
- 2 March 2012 • British Fantasy Society Open Night, London
- 3-4 March 2012 • P-Con IX, Dublin
- 10 March 2012 • New Age Of Discovery (steampunkish event), Snibston Discovery Park
- 10-11 March 2012 • QED (science/skeptics), Manchester
- 25 March 2012 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 28 March - 27 May 2012 • 'It’s Life Jimmy, but Not As We Know It': Science Fiction in Scotland (exhibition), National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- 29 March - 1 April 2012 • Dead by Dawn (horror film festival), Edinburgh
- 31 March 2012 • StarShipSofa Online Writers Workshop
- 6-9 April 2012 • Olympus 2012 (Eastercon), Heathrow, London – LiveJournal
- 14-15 April 2011 • Alt.Fiction, Leicester
- 26-29 April 2012 • Kontakt (SFeraKon 34/Eurocon), Zagreb, Croatia
- 18-20 May 2012 • Discover Festival, Coalville, Leicestershire
- 18-20 May 2012 • Waltz on the Wye (steampunk), Chepstow
- 19-20 May 2012 • Kapow! (comics), London
- 19-20 May 2012 • Middle-Earth Weekend, Sarehole, Birmingham
- 25-27 May 2012 • DiffCon (Who/Torchwood), Cardiff
- 8 June - 21 July 2012 or later • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show (on stage), various UK venues
- 18 June 2012 • CRSF 2012 (academic), Liverpool; call for papers
- 22-24 June 2012 • Science Fiction Foundation: SF Criticism Masterclass, London
- 10-12 August 2012 • Congenial (Unicon/RPG), Cambridge
- 16-20 August 2012 • The Return of the Ring (Tolkien Society), Loughborough University
- 23-27 August 2012 • Frightfest (film), London
- 24-27 August 2012 • Discworld Convention, Birmingham
- 30 August - 3 September 2012 • Chicon 7 (70th Worldcon) , Chicago
- 6-9 September 2012 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 22-29 September 2012 • Milford (UK) SF Writers' Conference, Snowdonia
- 22 September 2012 • TitanCon, Belfast
- 27-30 September 2012 • Fantasycon 2012, Brighton
- 13-14 October 2012, Octocon, Dublin
- 20 October 2012 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 25-28 October 2012 • Bram Stoker International Film Festival, Whitby
- 9-11 November 2012 • Armadacon 24, Plymouth
- 9-11 November 2012 • Novacon 42, Nottingham
- 20 December 2012 • Christmas Meeting at the usual First Thursday pub, London
2013
- 22-24 February 2013 • Redemption '13 (multimedia sf), Coventry
- 29 June - 1 July 2013 • Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: The Fantastika and the Classical World (SF Foundation conference), Liverpool
- 29 August - 2 September 2013 • LoneStarCon 3 (Worldcon), San Antonio. TX, USA
- 31 October - 3 November 2013 • World Fantasy Convention, Brighton
Future Convention Bids Etc
- 29 March - 1 April 2013 • EightSquared (Eastercon), Bradford
- 18-21 April 2014 • Satellite 4 (Eastercon), Glasgow
- 14-18 August 2014 • London in 2014 (Worldcon)
- ?22-24 August 2014 • Dublin in 2014 (Eurocon)
- Summer 2015 • Orlando in 2015 (Worldcon)
- Summer 2015 • Spokane in 2015 (Worldcon)
- 2-5 September 2016 • Kansas City in 2016 (Worldcon) – Twitter feed
- Japan in 2017 (Worldcon)
- New York in 2017 (Worldcon) – reported here
- New Orleans in 2018 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Montréal in 2019 (Worldcon) – reported here
- New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon)
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Infinitely Improbable
February
2012
•
Harry
Potter actor whinges about lack of Oscar nominations
•
Clive
Barker has been at death's door
• Kitschies winners
•
As
Others See (and Patronize) Us
• John
Christopher (Sam Youd, 1922-2012);
Guardian
obit by Chris Priest;
a
footnote
•
Ardath
Mayhar (1930-2012)
•
Spawn
lawsuit settled
•
Muppets
respond to Fox News
January 2012
•
BSFA
Awards shortlist;
SFE
comment
•
"Starship
Voyager dumped into skip"
• FAAn Awards: deadline
1 March
• File
770 scoops Ansible
•
HarperCollins
e-rights grab
•
Shippey
on Saler
• Kitschies
novel prize shortlist
• This page as it was on 18 January
•
Connie
Willis: SFWA Grand Master
•
Peter
Nicholls (Our Founder) on the SFE
•
Suppressed
by NASA: "the best science fiction film ever made in space";
may
now be released
•
"5
Beloved Book Series That Continued (Badly) After the Original
Authors Died "
• Concatenation
Spring 2012
•
Tolkien
and the Nobel Prize (BBC)
•
"A
sci-fi brothel for nerds"
• Arthur
C. Clarke in the DNB
• Hugo nominations
open
•
A
graphic comment on
the
Cowboys & Aliens lawsuit
•
3
January: 75 Years Ago
December
2011
•
Wimpy/Zombie
Kid lawsuit
•
Another
Avatar
lawsuit;
more
•
The
Hobbit: "blatant Anti-Christian bigotry and Atheist
propaganda";
a
reality-based comment
•
Ballard
daughter denounces the biography
•
Russell
Hoban (1925-2011)
•
"The
once New Worlds of Charles Platt"
•
Langford
babbles in the Sunday Telegraph
• Jacqueline
Monahan wins TAFF
•
Shock
horror poster ban (BBC);
here's
what we are being saved from (Guardian)
•
Lightspeed
and Fantasy magazines to merge
• Worldcon
bids: latest
•
"The
Muppets Are Communist"
•
SF
authors explain symbolism, 1963
•
"Enormous
Changes" at NYRSF
•
Those
Doctor Who film rumours
•
"Can
science fiction lead us away from economic collapse?" (Guardian)
•
Oscar
Wilde's tomb made kissproof
November
2011
•
Ellison
In Time lawsuit dropped
•
SFWA
allows Night Shade back into the fold
•
Clute
on Atwood and space squids
•
What's
the connection between yoga and Harry Potter?
•
Daleks
behind your sofa
•
Anne
McCaffrey (1926-2011);
Del
Rey;
Guardian
obit by Chris Priest; HuffPost
•
"How
women are winning sci-fi's battle of the sexes"
•
Teletubbies
analysed by Adam Roberts
•
Don't
say hobbit, say halfling
•
Nature
and sexism
•
SF
at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
•
Harlan
Ellison and In Time; story
debunked;
the
source revealed
• Weird Fiction
Review
• Another dodgy
publisher
•
Realms
of Fantasy dies again
October 2011
•
Farewell,
Murky Depths
•
Dick
estate sues the movie-makers
•
Suzette
Haden Elgin is unwell
• The Kitschies
•
Podcast
interviews with the 2012 TAFF candidates
•
Good
news for Peter Beagle
•
Salman
Rushdie interview
• 2012 GUFF
ballot [PDF]
• Nova Awards
ballot (deadline 7 November)
•
"What
the Booker prize really excludes"
•
A
life in writing: Terry Pratchett
•
Will
Harry Potter news stories never cease?
•
British
Fantasy Awards;
Steve
Jones objects;
Sam
Stone responds;
The
Guardian notices;
David
J Howe on statistics;
official
BFS statement
• 2012 TAFF ballot:
DOC,
RTF,
PDF
•
Terry
Pratchett does a Harlan
September
2011
•
"Censoring
Joss Whedon's Firefly ..."
•
Amazing
Stories resurrection plan
•
Gollancz
Gateway/E-Reads deal
•
Roald
Dahl's shed;
more
• Dr
Dave McKean
•
Harlan
Ellison sues again
•
"4
Brilliant Authors and Why They're Douchebags"
• Concatenation's
Autumn 2011 newsdump
• Orson
Scott Card rewrites the Bard;
Scott Lynch
can do it too
•
In
praise of Doctor Who
•
"Novelists
Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy"
