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2018
2019 | Overseas | Bids | London
- Until 30 September 2018 • Astérix in Britain (exhibition), London
- 25-27 May 2018 • Satellite 6, Glasgow
- 26 May 2018 • LawGiver 4 (Judge Dredd), Bristol
- 1 June - 28 October 2018 • Tolkien – Maker of Middle-earth (exhibition), Oxford
- 8-10 June 2018 • Lavecon (sf/fantasy/gaming; home), Northants
- 8-10 June 2018 • To See the Invisible (opera based on Silverberg story), Snape
- 23 June 2018 • BSFA/SF Foundation AGMs and mini-convention, London [link awaited]
- 29 June - 1 July 2018 • SF Foundation Masterclass in SF Criticism, Cambridge
- 29 June 2018 • Current Research in Speculative Fiction (conference), Liverpool
- 29 June - 1 July 2018 • Two Centuries of Frankenstein: 1818-2018, Cambridge
- 1 July 2018 • Tolkien Society Seminar (home), Leeds
- 6-7 July 2018 • Futurefest, London
- 7-8 July 2018 • Comics Uncovered, Birmingham
- 14 July 2018 • Edge-Lit 7, Derby
- 18 July 2018 • Arthur C. Clarke Award presentation, London
- 19-22 July 2018 • Nemo 2018 (Eurocon), Amiens, France
- 20-23 July 2018 • Continuum 2018 (RPG), Oadby
- 3-6 August 2018 • Discworld Convention, Warwick
- 10-12 August 2018 • Nine Worlds Geekfest, London
- 16-20 August 2018 • Worldcon 76 (Worldcon), San José, CA, USA
- 17-19 August 2018 • Wadfest, near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
- 23-27 August 2018 • Frightfest (film), London
- 24-27 August 2018 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 24-26 August 2018 • TitanCon (home), Belfast
- 25 August 2018 • Digi-Con (sf/comics/anime), Alfreton
- 26-27 August 2018 • Stars of Time (film/comics), Weston-super-Mare
- 1-2 September 2018 • Middle-earth Festival, Sarehole, Birmingham
- 1 September 2018 • Whooverville (Doctor Who), Derby
- 15-22 September 2018 • Milford UK (workshop), Snowdonia
- 15 September 2018 • Sublime Cognition: Science Fiction and Metaphysics (conference), London
- 17-23 September 2018 • Thought Bubble (comics), Leeds; includes Comic Con 22-23 September
- 20-23 September 2018 • Oxonmoot (home; Tolkien Society), Oxford
- 29-30 September 2018 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
- 29 September 2018 • Preston Comic Con, Preston
- 5-7 October 2018 • SFW in the City (Sci-Fi Weekender spinoff), Sheffield
- 12-14 October 2018 • Octocon, Dublin
- 12-14 October 2018 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal; blog
- 19-21 October 2018 • Celluloid Screams (horror film festival), Sheffield
- 19-21 October 2018 • Destination Star Trek, Birmingham
- 19-21 October 2018 • FantasyCon (host home), Chester
- 26-31 October 2018 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh
- 26-28 October 2018 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
- 27 October 2018 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 27 October 2018 • Frightfest Halloween (film), London
- 2-4 November 2018 • Armadacon 30, Plymouth
- 9-11 November 2018 • Novacon 48, Nottingham
- 1 December 2018 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London
2019
- 1-3 February 2019 • 31-ET (filk; home), Marks Tey, Colchester
- 1-28 February 2019 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- 3 February 2019 • Sci-Feb (media), Grimsby
- 22-24 February 2019 • Redemption (multimedia sf), Sheffield
- 25 March 2019 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 28-31 March 2019 • Sci-Fi Weekender, Pwllheli, North Wales
- 29 March - 1 April 2019 • Irish Discworld Convention, Cork, Ireland
- 12-14 April 2019 • Nullus Anxietas VII (Discworld), Melbourne, VA, Australia
- 19-22 April 2019 • Ytterbium (Eastercon), London Heathrow
- 7–11 August 2019 • Tolkien 2019 (Tolkien Society), Birmingham
- 10-11 August 2019 • Diana Wynne Jones (conference), Bristol
- 15-19 August 2019 • Dublin in 2019 (Worldcon)
- 22-24 August 2019 • TitanCon (Eurocon), Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 14-21 September 2019 • Milford UK (workshop), Snowdonia
Future Convention Bids
- New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon)
Boston in 2021(Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn June 2017Dallas/Fort Worthin 2021 (Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn August 2016- Washington DC in 2021 (Worldcon)
- Chicago in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Doha, Qatar, in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- France in 2023 (Worldcon)
- New Orleans in 2023 (Worldcon) – reported here
- UK in 2024 (Worldcon)
Washington DC in 2024(Worldcon) transferred to 2021 as above- Pacific Northwest, USA, in 2025 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Perth, Australia, in 2025 (Worldcon) – reported here
General/Other
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Infinitely Improbable
Ansible 370, May 2018
LeVar
Burton reads "Different Kinds of Darkness";
also
at Apple Podcasts
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). • Algis Budrys's Collected F&SF Essays; much of Langford's backlist. • Free ebooks at the TAFF site include the collected Frank Arnold, Skyrack, Leroy Kettle, John Brosnan and most recently Down the Badger Hole: R. Lionel Fanthorpe: The Badger Years.
May 2018
•
"The
harbingers of Doomwatch"
•
2017
Nebula Awards
•
"Time
to take Science Fiction seriously?"
•
H.P.
Wells?
•
Clarke
Award tickets
• FAAn Awards
•
2019
Diana Wynne Jones conference call for papers
•
Gollancz:
An open letter to The Bookseller;
the
editor responds
•
V.E.
Schwab's Tolkien lecture: video online
•
Clarke
Award shortlist
•
Hugo
voting opens 3 May
•
Locus
Awards shortlists
April 2018
•
"Writers
of the Future and Scientology, Redux"
• Jim Mowatt's TAFF
report
•
Amazing
Stories open for submissions
• Gemmell
Awards shortlists
• Twit
sues Worldcon 76
• SF²
Concatenation Summer 2018 Newscast
•
British
Science-Fiction Bibliography (1937)
•
Sublime
Cognition call for papers by 1 May
• Kitschies
winners
•
CRSF
call for papers by 30 April
• Fan fund winners announced:
DUFF,
GUFF,
TAFF plus fuller
TAFF Press Release
[PDF]
March 2018
• BSFA Awards
•
Hugo
shortlist and
Retro-Hugo
shortlist
• Philip
K. Dick Award
• Harry
Potter and the Bookseller of Larceny
•
The
signs of Didcot
•
Kitschies
shortlists
•
Clarke
Award submissions list
• Kate
Wilhelm (1928-2018)
•
Peter
Nicholls (1939-2018)
• A
Proposal to Re-Name the Young Adult Book Award at Worldcon 76;
more
• 2017 Bram Stoker Awards
•
"Fantasy
Writer Terry Goodkind Now Claims He Hated His Book Cover Because
It's 'Sexist'" (see
A368)
•
Looking
at some crowdfunding data (see
A368)
•
Tor
Books reshuffle
• Ansible 368 had several
production hiccups. Heavy snow on 1 March made the prospect of the
usual town-centre copy shop seem deeply uninviting, and paper copies
were coaxed out of the ancient Ansible laser printer. After an
unpleasant trip to the post box, it was time for the digital editions
... at which point our broadband stopped working. Updating the website
via cellphone is not unlike uploading a camel through the eye of a
needle. Various other notifications, the email lists and Usenet had to
wait until net access was restored on 2 March. What fun.
February
2018
•
Robotech
RPG Tactics: when Kickstarters go bad
•
LeVar
Burton reads "Different Kinds of Darkness";
also
at Apple Podcasts
• 28
February BSFA meeting postponed
•
Dublin
2019 rates to rise in April
•
2017
Nebula finalists
• 2018 GUFF ballot
• BSFA
Awards final ballot
• Gemmell
Awards longlist voting
•
Follycon
day memberships
•
Hugo
nominations open
•
Bram
Stoker Awards finalists
•
2018
DUFF Ballot
•
Brave
New Words award shortlist
January 2018
• Retro
Fan Hugos information page (omits
Futurian
War Digest)
•
Ursula
K. Le Guin 1929-2018; also
BBC,
Belfast
Telegraph, File
770, Guardian,
Independent,
LA
Times, Locus,
New
York Times, NPR,
SFWA,
Space.com,
Washington
Post;
a
Le Guin letter at Doctor Strangemind;
Margaret
Atwood,
David
Mitchell, Christopher
Priest; "On
Serious Literature" in Ansible and
a letter to Thog
•
SFWA
decides to draw the line somewhere;
File 770 names names
(see also below)
• Philip K. Dick
Award shortlist
• SF²
Concatenation Spring 2018 Newscast
• FAAn
Awards voting for 2017 work
• SF
Foundation Masterclass in SF Criticism
• Peter Beagle's lawsuit
delayed by Conor Cochran filing for bankruptcy;
more
here
• BSFA
Awards: longlist and round 2 of nominations
•
Worldcon
76 Exclusion Act; more at
File 770;
Jim C.
Hines provides background
• True
Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle [expanded 10 January with an
article we'd all missed]
December
2017
• TAFF
News #3: the 2018 candidates reveal all
• GUFF 2018
nominations open
•
Nature
sf roundup
• Short Shrift
ebook upgraded
• Doctor Strangemind
(Kim Huett)
•
2018
DUFF nominations open
• 2018 TAFF race announced in
TAFF News
#2; online voting form;
HTML and
PDF ballots.
November
2017
•
BSFA
Awards nominations are open
•
Science
fiction triggers "poorer reading", allegedly, or just
makes
you stupid
•
Christopher
Tolkien steps down
•
Jet
pack over Reading
•
World
Fantasy Awards winners
•
The
Peter S. Beagle statement; a
related legal development
• 2018
westbound TAFF race
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