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2019
- Until 23 February 2020 • Moving to Mars (exhibition), Design Museum, London
- 14 November 2019 • Anna Kavan discussion, Notting Hill
- 15 November 2019 • Alan Lee signing, Reading
- Cancelled 23-24 November 2019 • London Film & Comic Con – see Exhibition World
- 24 November 2019 • Paperback and Pulp Fair, London [date changed from 27 October as still shown on posters]
- 30 November 2019 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London
- 29 November - 1 December 2019 • UK Ghost Story Festival, Derby
- 1 December 2019 • Stars of Time (film/comics), Weston-super-Mare
- 2-9 December 2019 • Talos III: Science Fiction Theatre Festival of London, London
- 7-8 December 2019 • For the Love of Sci-Fi (comics), Manchester
2020
- 1-29 February 2020 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- 7-9 February 2020 • DemiSemiQuaver (filk; home), Marks Tey, Colchester
- 7-9 February 2020 • Sci-Fi Ball (media), Southampton
- 14-16 February 2020 • London Anime & Gaming Con, London Met
- 22 February 2020 • Picocon, London
- 25 March 2020 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 4 April 2020 • Bedford Who Charity Con, Bedford
- 4-5 April 2020 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 10-12 April 2020 • Concentric 2020 (Eastercon), Birmingham
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- 16-17 May 2020 • HorrorCon, Sheffield
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- 22-24 May 2020 • Satellite 7 (home), Glasgow
- 5-7 June 2020 • CYMERA: Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing, Edinburgh
- 3-5 July 2020 • Lavecon (sf/fantasy/gaming; home), Northants
- 11-12 July 2020 • Edge-Lit 9, Derby
- 26 July 2020 • Maximum Power (Blake's 7), ?Steventon, Oxfordshire [venue not confirmed]
- 29 July - 2 August 2020 • CoNZealand (Worldcon), Wellington, New Zealand
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- 3-6 September 2020 • Oxonmoot (home; Tolkien Society), Oxford
- 5-6 September 2020 • Film & Comic Con Collectormania, NEC, Birmingham
- 26-27 September 2020 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
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- 9-11 October 2020 • Octocon, near Dublin
- 31 October 2020 • Frightfest Hallowe'en (film), London
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2021
- 18-21 March 2021 • Eurocon 2021, Fiuggi, Italy
- 25-29 August 2021 • DisCon III (Worldcon), Washington DC, USA
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Free ebooks at the TAFF site. Recent releases: Tyne Capsule ed. Rob Jackson; THEN Again: A UK Fanhistory Reader ed. Rob Hansen; Challenging Moskowitz ed. Rob Hansen; The Serious Scientific Talks by Bob Shaw.
Ansible Editions: the latest of many titles is New Maps: More Uncollected John Sladek – trade paperback and ebook. Reviewed in the Washington Post!
November
2019
• ChiZine
Publications
in the news;
the
saga continues;
Statement
from ChiZine
• TAFF 2020
ballot released
[PDF]
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World
Fantasy Awards
• TAFF 2020
candidates announced
October 2019
• Clarke Award
submissions open
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"From
Tiptree to Otherwise"
•
"Philip
Pullman on Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It"
• 2020 GUFF
nominations open
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Stupid
"Sci-fi makes you stupid" study refuted by scientists
behind original research
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GamesFest
concerns (Event removed from the list on this page: website,
Facebook and Twitter presences have all been deleted.)
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Awards
September
2019
• Gahan
Wilson medical fundraiser
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Dan
Simmons, Climate Scientist, Speaks Out
• 2020 TAFF race
announced;
official
PDF
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Clarke
Award sf competition for young people
• SF²
Concatenation Autumn 2019 Newscast
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The
other Campbell Award to become ...?
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Nine
Worlds Geekfest unlikely to be revived
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Alice
Sheldon and the name of the Tiptree Award
• Martin Hoare's funeral
August 2019
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Campbell
Award to become Astounding Award
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July 2019
• Martin Hoare,
1952-2019, with
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at
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ESFS
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Mad
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June 2019
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Brian
Eno's asteroid
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Peter
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DC
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Good
Omens and the easily outraged
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Ian
Stewart remembers Jack Cohen
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Mythopoeic
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May 2019
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Malcolm
Edwards steps down
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GRRM:
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John
Carpenter Honoured at Cannes
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Frazetta
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Horror
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2021
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Locus
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Dublin
2019 membership prices rise 6 May
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Invisible
Alien Miscegenation!
April 2019
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Ed
Naha medical expenses fundraiser
• Carl
Brandon edited by Jeanne Gomoll
• SF²
Concatenation Summer 2019 Newscast
• TAFF and
GUFF winners
announced; TAFF release
with voting details
• Doc Weir
Award history
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Arthur
C. Clarke Award: complete submissions list
• Concentric 2020
is the next Eastercon
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Norma
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Gene
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Brave
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More
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BSFA
April venue change
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As
Others Use Us in an Example
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Vonda
N. McIntyre 1948-2019;
official
obituary at File 770
March 2019
•
J.G.
Ballard and Hyperprehistory
•
Narnia
fan fiction by Francis Spufford
• FAAn Awards voting deadline
extended from15 March to 25 March
• TAFF
News Redux #2: the candidates interviewed
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Lambda
Award shortlists of genre interest
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Sturgeon
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