Right now, I’m scheduled to be on four panels at Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, August 6 to 10 in Denver. You can look for me on: Reading Tolkien in the early years, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Writers reading from their juvenalia, Thursday, 10 a.m. Canadian Science Fiction, Friday, 10 a.m. Working with …
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My preliminary WorldCon schedule
Right now, I’m scheduled to be on four panels at Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, August 6 to 10 in Denver. You can look for me on: Reading Tolkien in the early years, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Writers reading from their juvenalia, Thursday, 10 a.m. Canadian Science Fiction, Friday, 10 a.m. Working with …
Go to World Fantasy Con, get a free copy of Marseguro!
No, I won’t be handing them out in the hallways at World Fantasy Convention in Calgary in October; my publisher, DAW, has taken care of that for me. I just received confirmation today that the convention organizers have received 300 copies of Marseguro for including in the World Fantasy Con book bags. That’s not enough …
Go to World Fantasy Con, get a free copy of Marseguro!
No, I won’t be handing them out in the hallways at World Fantasy Convention in Calgary in October; my publisher, DAW, has taken care of that for me. I just received confirmation today that the convention organizers have received 300 copies of Marseguro for including in the World Fantasy Con book bags. That’s not enough …
My KeyCon schedule
I’ll be at KeyCon in Winnipeg over the Victoria Day weekend, and they’re going to keep me busy! Here’s my schedule (still tentative at this point); if you’re attending, seek me out and say hi! Friday9pm to 10pm: Mundane SF and Space Opera with Hayden Trenholm. Saturday10am to 11am: Aliens in SF with Nick DiCharioNoon …
The Guardian arts blog says nice things about science fiction fans
To whit: Few in our contemporary culture spend as much time as the readers – and writers – of SF regularly considering the repercussions of technological and social change, or environmental transformation, or the ideological inflection in popular cultural products – no matter how frequently the press and politicians comment on such matters. Thank you …
Back and looking forward
As you may have noticed, blogging has taken a back seat to other activities recently while I was acting in Beauty and the Beast up in Saskatoon, but I’m settling back into a regular home routine again and ready to start off a new year of Hassenpfeffering. And it’s looking to be quite the year. …
Back and looking forward
As you may have noticed, blogging has taken a back seat to other activities recently while I was acting in Beauty and the Beast up in Saskatoon, but I’m settling back into a regular home routine again and ready to start off a new year of Hassenpfeffering. And it’s looking to be quite the year. …
Aurora Awards announced
I’m back! I’ll post more about my exploits with the Canadian Chamber Choir (which is what kept me away from the computer and hence from this blog for the last week) soon, but in the meantime, let’s get things rolling forward again with this list of the Aurora Award winners for the best Canadian SF …
Unreal science
My wife and I spent the weekend at ConVersion, Calgary’s annual science fiction convention. Featured this year were David Weber as Guest of Honor, Larry Niven as Special Guest of Honor, and R. Scott Bakker as Canadian Guest of Honor and Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, as Media …
TorCon3: The 2003 World Science Fiction Convention
See my photos of TorCon3 here. I was sitting at a table at the front of an ordinary room in the Toronto Convention Centre a few days ago, along with three other writers of children’s books. We had just begun a panel discussion on “Writing For Children” when in strolled a massive troll, gray as …
ConJose: The 2002 World Science Fiction Convention
Every Labour Day weekend, somewhere in the world, thousands of peopld gather for the World Science Fiction Convention. This year they gathered in San Jose, California, for the 60th WorldCon, as fans call it, and I was there. WorldCon covers the whole world of science fiction and fantasy, with particular emphasis, not on TV and …
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