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2018
- Until 28 October 2018 • Tolkien – Maker of Middle-earth (exhibition), Oxford
- Until 14 January 2019 • Alasdair Gray – An Exhibition, London
- Until 26 January 2019 • The Art of the Gestetner (exhibition), London
- 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
- 19-21 October 2018 • Octocon, Dublin
- 20 October 2018 • GamesFest, Tring
- 26-31 October 2018 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh
- 26-28 October 2018 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
- 27 October 2018 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 2-4 November 2018 • Armadacon 30, Plymouth
- 3 November 2018 • Frightfest Halloween (film), London
- 8 November - 9 December 2018 • Fanatical: A Sci-Fi Convention Musical, London
- 8 November 2018 • Science Fictions: the triumph of the imagination and the invention of scientific creativity, Oxford
- 9-11 November 2018 • Novacon 48, Nottingham
- 10 November 2018 • SFX Book Con, London
- 24 November 2018 • Sledge-Lit, Derby
- 1 December 2018 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London
- 2 December 2018 • Stars of Time (film/comics), Weston-super-Mare
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
- 8-10 February 2019 • SF Ball (media; SFBevents home), Southampton
- 16 February 2019 • Picocon, London
- 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
- 6-7 April 2019 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 19-22 April 2019 • Ytterbium (Eastercon), London Heathrow
- 11-12 May 2019 • HorrorCon, Sheffield
- 16 May - 26 August 2019 • AI: More Than Human (exhibition), Barbican, London
- 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
- 28-29 September 2019 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
2020
- 29 July - 2 August 2020 • CoNZealand (Worldcon), Wellington, New Zealand
Future Convention Bids
Boston in 2021(Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn June 2017Dallas/Fort Worthin 2021 (Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn August 2016- 13-16 May 2021 • DistopiCon (Eurocon), Timisoara, Romania
- 25-29 August 2021 • 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 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); much more. • 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.
October 2018
• 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
•
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
•
N.K.
Jemisin's Hugo speech
•
Hugo
Awards;
detailed
voting breakdown [PDF]
• CoNZealand:
Worldcon
2020 in New Zealand
•
Hugo
Base Design
•
Sidewise
Awards
• Chesley
Awards
•
Retro
Hugo Base Design
•
Retro
Hugo Awards;
detailed
voting breakdown [PDF]
•
Opening
Ceremony Awards
•
Daily
Newsletters
August 2018
•
Michael
Scott Rohan (1951-2018)
• R.I.P. Wadfest
• The Future of Nine
Worlds Geekfest
•
As
the USSR Saw Us (1947)
• 2018 TAFF trip blog
•
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
•
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
•
Pooh
map auctioned
•
The
last page of the Book of Mazarbul
•
British
Fantasy Awards shortlists
•
New
Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon bid): change of dates
June 2018
•
Harlan
Ellison (1934-2018)
•
Weird
Fantasy and Weird Science trademark applications
•
Locus
Awards Winners
•
Blake's
7 remembered
• Shimmer
magazine to close
• Donna
Maree Hanson's GUFF trip report (ebook)
• Campbell
Memorial Award shortlist
• Juliet E.
McKenna and Wikipedia
•
Space
Babe Coloring Book (all proceeds to the Tiptree Award)
•
James
Branch Cabell meets OCR
May 2018
•
Kristine
Kathryn Rusch on literary agents and embezzlement;
Jim
C. Hines comments
• 2018
Hugo Voter Packet
•
"UK
Brexit proposals nominated for Hugo Award in Fantasy category"
•
Michael
Swanwick on Gardner Dozois (1947-2018);
SF
Encyclopedia links roundup
• Mythopoeic
Awards shortlists
• The Further Adventures of
Jerry Cornelius
•
"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]
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