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2020
- Until 29 February 2020 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- Sold out 8 March 2020 • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 42nd anniversary celebration, London
- 13-14 March 2020 • Starburst Film Festival, Salford
- 20 March 2020 • Futurefest (futurology), London
- 25 March 2020 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 3 April 2020 • H.G. Wells & the Spiders From Mars (work-in-progress play), Cockpit Theatre, London
- 4 April 2020 • Bedford Who Charity Con, Bedford
- 4-5 April 2020 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 7-9 April 2020 • Springmoot/AGM (home; Tolkien Society), Exeter
- 10-12 April 2020 • Concentric 2020 (Eastercon), Birmingham
- 16-19 April 2020 • StokerCon UK, Scarborough
- 23-26 April 2020 • Dead by Dawn (horror film festival), Edinburgh
- 23-26 April 2020 • Sci-Fi Weekender, Great Yarmouth
- 2-3 May 2020 • EM-Con, Nottingham
- 12-20 May 2020 • Sci-Fi London (film), London
- 16-17 May 2020 • HorrorCon, Sheffield
- 16 May 2020 • Lawless (UK comics), Bristol
- 22-24 May 2020 • Satellite 7 (home), Glasgow
- 2-6 June 2020 • Outlander Conference, Glasgow; call for papers by 31 January
- 5-7 June 2020 • CYMERA: Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing, Edinburgh
- 6 June 2020 • Carlisle Comic Con (home), Carlisle
- 15-21 June 2020 • Talos IV: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London (home), London
- 3-5 July 2020 • Lavecon (sf/fantasy/gaming; home), Northants
- 11-12 July 2020 • Edge-Lit 9, Derby
- 26 July 2020 • Forever Avon (Blake's 7; formerly Maximum Power), Steventon, Oxfordshire
- 29 July - 2 August 2020 • CoNZealand (Worldcon), Wellington, New Zealand
- 7-10 August 2020 • Continuum 2020 (RPG), Oadby
- 7-10 August 2020 • Discworld Convention, Birmingham
- 27-31 August 2020 • Frightfest (film), London
- 28-31 August 2020 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 28-31 August 2020 • Redemption (multimedia sf), Sheffield
- 28-30 August 2020 • TitanCon, Belfast
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- 3-6 September 2020 • Oxonmoot (home; Tolkien Society), Oxford
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- 19 September 2020 • International Comic Expo, Birmingham
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- 9-15 November 2020 • Thought Bubble (comics), Harrogate; includes Comic Con 14-15 November
- 13-15 November 2020 • Destination Star Trek, London
- 13-15 November 2020 • Novacon 50, Nottingham
- 5-6 December 2020 • For the Love of Sci-Fi (comics), Manchester
2021
- 5-7 February 2021 • Long Play (filk; home), Grantham
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Infinitely Improbable
Latest free ebooks at the TAFF site. Recent releases: The Serious Scientific Talks by Bob Shaw; Homefront: Fandom in the UK 1939-1945 edited by Rob Hansen – a huge compilation of wartime fanwriting.
Ansible Editions: the latest of many titles is New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek – trade paperback and ebook. Reviewed in the Washington Post!
February
2020
•
Dean
Koontz Goes Viral
•
Nebula
Awards shortlist
• BSFA Awards
shortlist
• Retro
Hugo fanzines online
•
Brave
New Words Award 2020
• Worldcon 2022: Chicago,
Illinois vs Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia
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Locus
Recommended Reading List
January 2020
•
Adapting
H.G. Wells for TV
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European
Fan Fund update
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Roz
Kaveney: "Issues of identity in modern science fiction"
•
Walt
Willis and Nudge Theory
• GUFF 2020
candidates and ballot
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DUFF
2020 candidates and ballot
• SF²
Concatenation Spring 2020 Newscast
• TAFF winner announced;
Official TAFF
Press Release with voting details
• Steve
Stiles (1943-2020)
•
Mike
Resnick (1942-2020)
•
Asimov's
Empire, Asimov's Wall
• TAFF
voting reminder: deadline 12 January
• BSFA Awards
longlist and (members
only) voting form; deadline 31 January
•
Hugo
nominations are open, closing 13 March
• Romance
Writers
of
America
turmoil
...
continues;
RITA
awards cancelled;
still
more upheaval
December
2019
•
Alasdair
Gray (1934-2019); Guardian;
Morning
Star
•
Brian
Aldiss remembered in photos
•
USDA
and Wakanda
• TAFFish
1 with TAFF finances, candidate interviews, January deadline
reminder
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Europa
SF to shut down? Later:
January relaunch
announced
•
Lois
McMaster Bujold, SFWA Grand Master
• Christopher
Priest: "A Hundred Books"
• Rotsler
Award to Alison Scott
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DUFF
2020 nominations open
November
2019
•
Bad
Sex Awards nominees: quotations
•
"An
inward looking outer space": a brief history of Corridor
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CoNZealand
Hugo design competition
•
The
Return of John M. Ford
• Eastercon
2019 accounts
• ChiZine
Publications
in the news;
the
saga continues;
ChiZine
statement;
still
more;
SFWA
statement;
summary
at Writer Beware
• TAFF 2020
ballot released
[PDF]
•
World
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• TAFF 2020
candidates announced
• BSFA Award
nominations (members only)
October 2019
• Clarke Award
submissions open
•
"From
Tiptree to Otherwise"
•
"Philip
Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It"
• 2020 GUFF
nominations open
•
Stupid
"Sci-fi makes you stupid" study refuted by scientists
behind original research
•
GamesFest
concerns (Event removed from the list on this page: website,
Facebook and Twitter presences have all been deleted.)
• Elgin
Awards
September
2019
• Gahan
Wilson medical fundraiser
•
Dan
Simmons, Climate Scientist, Speaks Out
• 2020 TAFF race
announced;
official
PDF
•
Clarke
Award sf competition for young people
• SF²
Concatenation Autumn 2019 Newscast
•
The
other Campbell Award to become ...?
•
Nine
Worlds Geekfest unlikely to be revived
•
Alice
Sheldon and the name of the Tiptree Award
• Martin Hoare's funeral
August 2019
• Donations
in memory of Martin Hoare
•
Campbell
Award to become Astounding Award
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Festival 2019 cancelled; next is September 2020
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Hugo
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• 2021 Worldcon: DisCon
III,Washington DC
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