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Events and Conventions
2016
2017 | Overseas | Bids | London
- Until 24 February 2016 • Ionawr (Rodney Matthews exhibition), Wells
- Until 28 February 2016 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- Until 17 April 2016 • Alice in Wonderland (exhibition), London
- 20 February 2016 • Picocon 33, Imperial College, London
- 26 February 2016 • Alice’s Adventures in Comics-Land (panel), London
- Sold out 26 February 2016 • Star Wars & Beyond – A Space Spectacular (music), Birmingham [repeat performance 2 July below]
- 5 March 2016 • Durham Sci-Fi & Fantasy Lit-Fest, Durham
- 17-20 March 2016 • Sci-Fi Weekender, Pwllheli, North Wales
- 25-28 March 2016 • Mancunicon (Eastercon), Manchester
- 25 March 2016 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 6-9 April 2016 • Terry Pratchett: The Shakespeare Codex (play), Abingdon
- 11 April - 20 June 2016 • Doctor Who (Monday evening class), Stockport
- 9-10 April 2016 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 21-24 April 2016 • Dead by Dawn (horror film festival), Edinburgh
- 30 April - 1 May 2016 • EM-Con, Nottingham
- 28-29 May 2016 • Satellite 5, Glasgow
- 16-18 June 2016 • Roald Dahl Conference, Cardiff
- 2 July 2016 • Star Wars & Beyond – A Space Spectacular (music), Birmingham
- 3 July 2016 • Tolkien Society Seminar (home), Leeds
- 4-5 July 2016 • Locating Fantastika (conference). Lancaster
- 8-10 July 2016 • Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions (conference), Woking. Call for papers deadline 15 April 2016.
- 16 July 2016 • Edge-Lit 5, Derby
- 6 August 2016 • Preston Comic Con, Preston
- 12-14 August 2016 • Nine Worlds Geekfest, London
- 12-14 August 2016 • Wadfest (Discworld), Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
- 17-21 August 2016 • MidAmeriCon II (74th Worldcon), Kansas City, MO, USA
- 26-29 August 2016 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 26-29 August 2016 • Discworld Convention, Warwick
- 8-11 September 2016 • Oxonmoot (home; Tolkien Society), Oxford
- 10 September 2016 • International Comics Expo, Birmingham
- 11 September 2016 • Comics Uncovered, Birmingham –linked to the above
- 17-18 September 2016 • Futurefest, London
- 23-25 September 2016 • Fantasycon, Scarborough
- 8 October 2016 • Nor-Con 6 (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
- 14-16 October 2016 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal; blog
- 14-16 October 2016 • Octocon, Dublin
- 27-30 October 2016 • Bram Stoker International Film Festival, Whitby
- 29 October 2016 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 4-6 November 2016 • BCon (Eurocon), Barcelona, Spain
- 11-13 November 2016 • Novacon 46, Nottingham
2017
- 3-5 February 2017 • Quoi de Neuf (filk; home), Marks Tey, Colchester
- 24-26 February 2017 • Redemption '17 (multimedia sf), Sheffield
- 14-17 April 2017 • Pasgon (Eastercon), Cardiff
- 9-11 June 2017 • Lazlar Lyricon 3 (Hitch-Hiker), Stoke-on-Trent
- 16-18 June 2017 • U-Con (Eurocon), Dortmund, Germany
- 9-13 August 2017 • Worldcon 75 (Worldcon), Helsinki, Finland
Future Convention Bids
- New Orleans in 2018 (Worldcon)
- 16-20 August 2018 • San José in 2018 (Worldcon)
- Dublin in 2019 (Worldcon)
- New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon)
- Boston in 2021? (Worldcon) – reported here
- Dallas/Fort Worth in 2021 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Chicago in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Doha, Qatar, in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- France in 2023 (Worldcon)
- UK in 2024? (Worldcon) – reported here
- Perth, Australia, in 2025 – reported here
General/Other
- Doctor Who Exhibitions (UK)
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Infinitely Improbable
Algis Budrys Collected F&SF Essays: ebooks available; plus David Langford's backlist, most recently The Silence of the Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness, Crosstalk and Don't Try This at Home. • Free ebooks at the TAFF site; the latest is A Vince Clarke Treasury.
February 2016
•
Another
lawsuit: Dark Hunter vs Shadowhunter
•
BSFA
Awards shortlist
• London First Thursday meetings: another
change of plan
•
On
World Fantasy Con harassment and accessibility concerns;
belated action
•
Locus
Recommended Reading List
January 2016
•
Hugo
nominations are open
• FAAn
Award nominations are open
• "On
the Firing of a Tenured Professor" (sf critic Rob Latham)
•
Lionel
Fanthorpe in the news
•
A
plaque for Terry Pratchett
• SFWA market
reports now available to all
•
Campaign
for Gerry Anderson plaques in Kilburn
•
Thog
on Fire
• Stoker Awards:
Preliminary Ballot
•
David
G.
Hartwell
1941-2016
• SF²
Concatenation Spring 2016 Newscast
•
"Pullman
resigns from Oxford Lit Fest over author pay"
•
Second
lawsuit against Peter Beagle's publisher
• Apex
& Lightspeed no longer semiprozines
• Eurocon 2017
•
David
Bowie 1947-2016
•
Lois
Tilton leaves Locus
Online; Locus
responds
• Rabid
Pups vs Goodreads
•
"Name
new element 117 Octarine, in honour of Terry Pratchett's Discworld"
• "Google
translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error"
•
Edward
Gorey’s Illustrated Envelopes
• Horror Writers Association UK
Chapter
•
Beware
Fake Penguin Employee!
•
BSFA
Award nominations, round 2
• The
Axanar FAQ
•
1956
Worldcon photos: can you identify the unknowns?
December
2015
•
"Sir
Terry Pratchett remembered by his daughter, Rhianna Pratchett"
•
US
Star Trek stamps in 2016;
Paramount
and CBS move against crowdfunded fan film Axanar
•
Cli-fi,
so dramatically different from boring old sf
•
"Tor.com
Will Be Closed to Unsolicited Short Fiction Submissions"
•
HTTP
error [Fahrenheit] 451 now official
•
Almond
Press: not a class act
•
Peter
Dickinson 1927-2015
•
Author
who stalked and attacked a reviewer now jailed
• BSFA Award
nominations close 31 December
• 2016 TAFF voting
begins; online
ballot form
•
The
horror of fake Star Wars toys: will there be an Emperor Daft Serious
in your Christmas stocking?
•
Peter
Beagle's lawsuit;
some
background;
the
full complaint;
fan support site;
another
•
Could
this be the same Nottingham-based games company
that laid claim to the
term "space marine"?
November
2015
• Whither Eastercon?
The questionnaire is back
• 2024 UK Worldcon bid?
Discussion begins
• New
awards named for the late Bill Kunkel
• Call for new World
Fantasy Award design;
Artists
Beware! says John Picacio
•
Society
of Illustrators Hall of Fame: Beatrix Potter, Richard Powers
•
The
Man in the High Castle – still controversial!;
likewise
on the New York subway
•
2016
Hugo Award Base Competition
•
New
imprint: John Joseph Adams Books
•
World
Fantasy Awards Winners 2015;
goodbye to
the controversial HPL trophy;
S.T. Joshi
has hissy fit;
new trophy
poll!; Guardian
•
LOTR
film music wins all-time popularity poll again
•
Strange
doings at Samhain Publishing
•
Judge
Dredd uncensored at last
•
Crossed
Genres to close
• TAFFWorld
#4 with fuller details of the 2016 TAFF race (nominations now
open)
•
Jon
Langford Wins Book Cover Design Award, Fails To Tell Ansible;
also
in The Bookseller
•
How
to Win Friends and Influence Editors, part 5,271,009
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