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2019
- Until 9 February 2019 • Discworld & Beyond (exhibition), Hitchin
- Until 24 February 2019 • The Art of the Gestetner (exhibition), London
- Until 16 March 2019 • Frank Hampson – The Man Who Drew Dan Dare (exhibition), Southport
- 26 January 2019 • Writing Fantastic Worlds, Derby
- 1-3 February 2019 • 31-ET (filk; home), Marks Tey, Colchester
- 1-28 February 2019 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- Cancelled 3 February 2019 • Sci-Feb (media), Grimsby [website gone; cancellation announced on Facebook]
- 7-8 February 2019 • The Art of the Mimeograph (conference linked to exhibition above), London
- 8-10 February 2019 • SF Ball (media; SFBevents home), Southampton
- 16 February 2019 • Picocon, London
- Postponed 23-24 February 2019 • Creaturegeddon ("creatures and monsters"), Watford: see linked Facebook page
- 26 February 2019 • Tolkien Lecture by Marlon James, Oxford
- 1-2 March 2019 • Frightfest (film), Glasgow
- 10 March 2019 • Birmingham International Horrorshow (film), Birmingham
- 15-16 March 2019 • Starburst Film Festival, Salford
- 25 March 2019 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 29-30 March 2019 • Sci-Fi Weekender Part 1, Sheffield
- 29 March - 1 April 2019 • Irish Discworld Convention, Cork, Ireland
- 5-7 April 2019 • Springmoot/AGM (Tolkien Society), London
- 6-7 April 2019 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 12-13 April 2019 • Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science|SF (conference), Egham: call for papers
- 19-22 April 2019 • Ytterbium (Eastercon), London Heathrow
- 9-19 May 2019 • Sci-Fi London (film; home), London
- 11-12 May 2019 • HorrorCon, Sheffield
- 18 May 2019 • Lawless (UK comics, expanded from LawGiver), Bristol
- 16 May - 26 August 2019 • AI: More Than Human (exhibition), Barbican, London
- 7-9 June 2019 • CYMERA: Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing, Edinburgh
- 5-7 July 2019 • Lavecon (sf/fantasy/gaming; home), Northants
- 13 July 2019 • Edge-Lit 8, Derby
- 7–11 August 2019 • Tolkien 2019 (Tolkien Society), Birmingham
- 10-11 August 2019 • Diana Wynne Jones (conference), Bristol
- 15-19 August 2019 • Dublin 2019 (Worldcon)
- 22-26 August 2019 • Frightfest (film), London
- 22-25 August 2019 • TitanCon (Eurocon), Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 25-26 August 2019 • Stars of Time (film/comics), Weston-super-Mare
- 31 August 2019 • Whooverville (Doctor Who), Derby
- 14-21 September 2019 • Milford UK (workshop), Snowdonia
- 28-29 September 2019 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
- 11-13 October 2019 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal; blog
- 25-27 October 2019 • Destination Star Trek, Birmingham NEC
- 25-27 October 2019 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
- 26 October 2019 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 31 October - 3 November 2019 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh
- 31 October - 3 November 2019 • Sci-Fi Weekender Part 2, Great Yarmouth
- 1-3 November 2019 • Armadacon 31, Plymouth
- 2 November 2019 • Frightfest (film) Hallowe'en special, London
- 8-10 November 2019 • Novacon 49, Nottingham
- 7-8 December 2019 • For the Love of Sci-Fi (comics), Manchester
2020
- 29 July - 2 August 2020 • CoNZealand (Worldcon), Wellington, New Zealand
Future Convention Bids
- 10-12 April 2020 • Concentric 2020 (Eastercon), Birmingham
- 13-16 May 2021 • DistopiCon (Eurocon), Timisoara, Romania
- 25-29 August 2021 • Washington DC in 2021 (Worldcon)
- Chicago in 2022 (Worldcon)
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- UK in 2024 (Worldcon)
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- Perth (Australia) in 2025 (Worldcon) – Twitter only
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Infinitely Improbable
Free ebooks at the TAFF site: The December/Christmas release is Don't Try This at Home: Selected Convention Reports by David Langford.
Ansible Editions: Chris Morgan's and David Langford's Facts & Fallacies (ebook), Yvonne Rousseau's The Murders at Hanging Rock (ebook) and Rob Hansen's Then (hb, pb, ebook); and much more.
January 2019
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SFWA
to raise the word-rate bar
• SF²
Concatenation Spring 2019 Newscast
• Collected
Stories by David Redd
• Orwell
Prize: new fiction category
December
2018
•
Ytterbium
(Eastercon) accommodation bursaries
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DUFF:
no 2019 race
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Nine
Worlds
tweetstorm;
official
response
• TAFF
News Redux
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now open
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Eastercon bid
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SFWA
and Writers of the Future
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• Dublin
2019 Special Hugo category
November
2018
•
Bad
Sex Award
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Join
the Dublin Worldcon by 31 December to qualify as a Hugo nominator
• Robert
Silverberg vs The Internet
•
Fake
Britain map
• 2019 TAFF candidates
announced
•
"Science
Fiction & Information Law" essay competition
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Japanese
dystopia wins US award
•
Stan
Lee (1922-2018)
•
"When
I began A Game of Thrones I thought it might be a short
story"
•
Nebula
Awards rules changes
•
"Netflix,
Warner Bros. Hit With $50M Suit Over Satanic Deity in Chilling
Adventures of Sabrina"
•
Greg
Egan Superpermutes
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2018
World Fantasy Awards Winners
• "I
Tried to Make Piracy Work for My Film – but Pirates Don’t
Work for Anyone"
October 2018
•
George
R.R. Martin Is Number 48
• The Crimes
of Bram Stoker
• 2018
British Fantasy Awards winners
• 2019 GUFF
nominations open
•
Kelly
Link, MacArthur fellow
•
"The
London Horror Con Disaster"
• Gestetner exhibition photos
September
2018
•
Space
Opera Book Cover Maker
•
"Philip
Pullman loses His Dark Materials ballpoint pen"
• BSFA
Awards: nominations open, with wider Best Novel eligibility
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Genre
titles on Man Booker shortlist
•
"Haruki
Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize"
•
Together
Again for the First Time: Malzberg, Spinrad and Verne!
• SF²
Concatenation Autumn 2018 Newscast
• 2019 TAFF race:
nomination and voting dates
August 2018
continued
• Christopher
Priest: "50 Not Out"
•
What
Should Become of Judy-Lynn Del Rey's Hugo?
•
Requiem
for Sad Puppies
•
"The
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet"
(blush)
• Michael Scott
Rohan memorial site (reminiscences solicited)
Worldcon
76
• Closing
Ceremony
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N.K.
Jemisin's Hugo speech
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Hugo
Awards;
detailed
voting breakdown [PDF]
• CoNZealand:
Worldcon
2020 in New Zealand
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Hugo
Base Design
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Sidewise
Awards
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Awards
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Retro
Hugo Base Design
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Retro
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Opening
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Daily
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August 2018
•
Michael
Scott Rohan (1951-2018)
• R.I.P. Wadfest
• The Future of Nine
Worlds Geekfest
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As
the USSR Saw Us (1947)
• 2018 TAFF trip blog
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Worldcon
76 Programme
July 2018
• Stupid
lawsuit against Worldcon 76 continues
•
"Inside
the World of Racist Science Fiction"
•
World
Fantasy Awards shortlists
• "Worldcon
76 Program Troubles";
A
New Hope;
more
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Mythopoeic
Awards
•
Lost
moon
• Trademark application alerts:
Dragon
Slayer;
highly
distinctive cover design;
BrewDog
PLC grabs "fanzine".
•
Arthur
C. Clarke Award
• TAFF
News Special Report
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Pooh
map auctioned
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The
last page of the Book of Mazarbul
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British
Fantasy Awards shortlists
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New
Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon bid): change of dates
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