conventions
Feb 09, 2009
Hugo nomination form now online
Support the community by nominating for SF's biggest award
The annual Hugo awards will be held in Montreal this year, at Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon. If you've been thinking of attending, the window for doing so and also nominating for the award is closing rapidly. In fact, you have until February 28th to nominate. You need a Hugo PIN number to do it, which you can only get by having a Worldcon membership; the problem is that PIN numbers have been trickling out rather slowly, so if you don't have a membership and want to nominate, you'd better hurry!
The online Hugo nomination form is on the Anticipation website, as is a registration page. If you can't attend the convention but would like to nominate for the Hugo, you can buy a supporting membership for US$50 or CAN$55.
Montreal's a fun city, and I hope to see you there this year.
UPDATE: Apparently you had to buy your membership by January 31st to be eligible to nominate. My bad.
Jan 21, 2009
My ConFusion schedule
This weekend in Troy, Michigan--don't miss it
Here's what I'll be up to this weekend at ConFusion. (For complete details of location etc., click the link under Upcoming Events on the right of this window.)
Saturday, January 24
10:00 AM
Salon E LITERARY - Playing with Genre Conventions (1 hr.)
Tobias Buckell, Jim Hines, Karl Schroeder, Doselle Young and Jim Frenkel [M] How can we take the mundane and shopworn conventions of science fiction, fantasy and horror and reinvent them?
Noon
Salon H LITERARY - Setting: Haven't I been here before? (1 hr.)
Violette Malan [M], Karl Schroeder, Catherine Shaffer, Doselle Young and Jim Frenkel How important is setting to a reader's understanding and enjoyment of the story? Is setting the real difference between S and SF? Are we overusing the settings we have, and are there any new ones?
3:00 PM
Salon E LITERARY - Big Brother is Watching You! (1 hr.)
Cory Doctorow, David Rozian, Steve Buchheit, Karl Schroeder [M], Catherine Shaffer Personal privacy in the electronic age we now have or will have chips on everything we own including pets, where is this all going? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
4:00 PM
Salon E LITERARY - Meet the New Medium (1 hr.)
Cat Rambo, Tobias Buckell [M], Karl Schroeder and Dave Klecha Games are as much a part of the younger generations entertainment mix as books writing for/about games.
5:00 PM
Salon E MASS AUTHOR AUTOGRAPH SESSION
After a little bit of set-up Cryptic ConFusion's authors will be lined up to sign your books.
Sunday, January 25
10:00 AM
Salon G LITERARY - Wuffies? Total meltdown? Libertarianism? (1 hr.)
Cory Doctorow, Paul Melko [M], Karl Schroeder and Mathew Stewart-Fulton The actual future of economics what are some current ideas on where the world economy is headed.
Oct 26, 2008
I'm Minicon 44 Guest of Honour
I'm excited to be asked to be GOH--and pumped that Stephan Martiniere, my cover artist, will be Artist GOH
I'll be GOH at Minicon, Minnesota's longest-running science fiction convention, over Easter weekend, 2009. Past GOH's include luminaries such as Gordon R. Dickson, Poul Anderson, Theodore Sturgeon, Larry Niven and Jack Vance. I'm honored to be in their company!
Minicon is an annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans sponsored by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (Minn-StF). The convention is held each year in or near Minneapolis, Minnesota over Easter weekend. The convention has been running annually (and sometimes twice a year!) since 1968.
Hope to see you there!
Jul 31, 2008
Sadly, no worldcon for me this year
Circumstances beyond my control have forced me to cancel my appearances at Denvention
Unfortunately, I also have to cancel my upcoming visit to Ann Arbor to frolic with Tobias Buckell and John Scalzi; we were all going to celebrate the releases of our respective novels, but you guys will have to party without me this time. My apologies to everyone who was hoping to see me, and sorry as well that I couldn't have done it sooner than a week before the convention; but I didn't know this was going to happen myself until a couple of days ago.
I'll update the Events page of my site as soon as I know when my next appearances will be.
Jul 15, 2008
My Denvention Schedule
I'll be at Worldcon in Denver. Drop in and see me!
Here's my schedule for the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, which happens August 6-10, in Denver Colorado. It's a pretty modest schedule, but when you realize that there's several hundred programming guests and only a limited set of slots--well, I don't know very many other midlist writers who have any more panels than this. In that sense, Worldcon is a victim of its own success; but I'm not complaining, because people will still be able to find me, and the Kaffeeklatsch and reading should be fun.
- Swashbucklers in Space, Thur 17:30 (I'm moderating)
- Canadian Science Fiction, Fri 10:00 (moderating this one too)
- Kaffeeklatch Sat, 16:00
- Reading:
Thur 11:30
If you want to see me outside of this schedule, just email me and we can talk.
Mar 23, 2008
Swancon days 2 & 3
Many photos taken--getting them off the camera is proving difficult
So I finally got to meet Sean Williams; he and I were on a couple of panels yesterday and today with Ken MacLeod, Robin Pen and Jonathon Strahan, talking about space opera (go figure!). Sean and I went for lunch together today (which is tomorrow for you reading this in North America) at a very nice Indian restaurant on the corner, and talked shop happily until my panel at 2:00 when I did a very interesting panel on "Painting the Future Green" with Zara Baxter, Margaret Dunlop, and Tiki, whose last name I didn't catch, a media analyst from the east coast.
I'd be uploading loads of photos to add to this post, except that my laptop has decided not to recognize SD cards, so I have to find a workaround to get them off my camera.
While we're waiting on that little technical glitch, here's a couple of previously uploaded shots: the entrance to King's Park, in downtown Perth, and a glorious sunrise taken in the countryside northeast of Geraldton.
Meanwhile, back in Canada, there's been heavy blogging activity around SciBarCamp. The buzz is building that we might do another, and people who were mildly interested before are now keenly curious. This was exactly the outcome we were hoping for.