Fans Across the World Newsletter February 2001
B.J. Wilkinson
February 2001
Newsletter 106
B. Wilkinson, 2 Hobbs Close, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3UX, Great
Britain
Pub meet moves again
After having settled in the Bankers Arms, the Irish SF meeting
in Dublin has had to move again after a change in management.
Padraid O'Mealoid and James Bacon have taken on the task of
finding a new meeting place and organising the meetings. Since
ISFA is dead and Science Fiction Ireland is comatose, the
First Tuesday meetings will use the monniker Sci-Fi Club. A
website at http://www.lostcarpark.com/sfclub gives details.
The new venue is Bowe's Pub on Fleet Street opposite the rear
entrance of the Irish Times and the 46A bus stop. (David
Stewart)
Russian Ezine
CityCat.ru, a popular Russian email list service, have started
a new project (Felist.Com), offering (since November 1) mail
lists in English. One of the lists is "Russian Science Fiction
& Fantasy".http://subscribe.ru/catalog/lit.writer.scifi The
ezine appears occasionally. List master: Alexei Monastyrsky,
email alex...@rusf.ru http://fiction.ru/english The list
describes what's happening on the Russian Science Fiction &
Fantasy web site.
Armageddon late
ArmageddonCon was postponed due to the apocalyptic turn of
events in Israel. The Israeli Society for Science Fiction and
Fantasy (http://sf-f.org.il) will continue to work on other
conventions, and hopes to bring International guests to future
events.
However, the spectacular set of Science Fiction stamps
commissioned from artist Avi Katz (http://www.avikatz.com),
originally slated for release in conjunction with
ArmageddonCon, is available at Israeli Postal Offices. Online
images can be seen at
(http://www.armageddoncon.org/arcon_stamps.html). Avi Katz has
also recently put the series of paintings he prepared for the
Con online. You can reach the exhibit directly by going to
http://www.avikatz.com/armageddon/01welcome.htm Drop by Avi's
guestbook and leave a good word on your way out
http://www.avikatz.com
Future International Conventions
* = New or Amended entry
2001
Conthirteena: 2-4 February, Eastbourne, UK. Filk. Att.25UKP.
Contact: 15 St Catherine's Cross, Bletchingly, Surrey, RH1
4PX.
* Krakon 2001 8-11 February, Krakow, Poland. Contact: Tomasz
Majkowski: t...@fandom.art.pl
* PicoCon: 10 February, London, Poland. GoH: Christopher
Priest, Geoff Ryman, Juliet E McKenna. (email
jo...@golgotha.org.uk; http://www..su.ic.ac.uk/icsf/)
Roscon: 15-18 February, Moscow, Russia. Att. from $70 US all
inclusive. Contact: Tel. (095) 1230177 ("Manufactura"); (095)
3356832 (Dimitri Volodikhin); email: con...@mcf.msk.ru;
http://www.convent.ru
Ad Astra 2001: 23-25 February, Toronto, ON, Canada. GoH:
Connie Willis, David Hartwell. Contact:
http://www.ad-astra.org; ada...@home.com 905-305-0827
* MeCon: 9-11 March, Belfast, Northern Ireland. GoH: Michael
Sheard, Ian McDonald, Dave Lally. Contact:
http://www.mecon.co.uk/
* FilkOntario 11: 30 March-1 April, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Filk. GoH: Bill & Brenda Sutton. Att: $42 ‘til 31/10/00.
Contact: 145 Rice Ave, Unit 98, Hamilton, ON, L9C 6R3.
Hay...@bserv.com
* Swancon 2001 The Masquerade: Aussie Nat. SF Con, 12-16
April, Perth, WA, Australia. Att. A$80, $100 on door. GoH
Rosaleen Love, Marilyn Pride, Lewis Morley, Kate Orman and Sue
Ackerman. Contact: Swancon 2001, PO Box 162 Nedlands WA 6909,
Australia. (Email: swancon2001committee@egroups .com;
http://www.sf.org.au/swancon2001)
Paragon: Eastercon, 13-16 April, Hinckley, UK. Contact: S.
Lawson, 379 Myrtle Road, Sheffield, S2 3HQ, UK (email:
members.paragon@keepsake-w eb.co.uk;
http://www.keepsake-web.co.uk/ paragon)
* OdysseyCon: New Zealand NatCon, 13-16 April, Auckland, New
Zealand. GoH Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, Lyn McConchie,
Brian Howell. Att. NZ$70 ‘til 12/04/2001, NZ$80 on door.
Contact: P.O. Box 74-013 Market Rd, Auckland New Zealand.
Email: enqu...@odysseycon.sf.org.nz
http://www.odysseycon.sf.org.nz
* Arracon: 30 April-3 May, Elblag, Poland. Att. 60 zl ‘til
31/3/01, then 80 zl. Contact: Marcim Grygiel, Skr. poczt. 20,
82-312 Elblag 13, Poland. (email: pi...@vc.pl,
marcin_...@zt.elblag.tpsa.pl, http://www.gabo.pl~fremen)
* Italcon 27/ Torino Comics 2001 27-29 April, Torino
Esposizioni, Turin, Italy. GoH: Norman Spinrad; Maurizio
Manzieri. Contact: Circolo Culturale L'ALTROQUANDO C.P.133,
10036 Settimo Torinese(TO), Italy. (email
italc...@fantascienza.com ; www.fantascienza.com/italcon)
Lituanicon 2001: 3rd Millenium: Technology vs. Magic: 28-30
April, Kaunas, Lithuania. Att. 10LTL (c.2.5$). Contact:
Vytautas Jonaitis (vyt...@pit.ktu.lt), Emilis Dambauskas
lun...@dokeda.lt, 8-286-07732)
* V-Con/Canvention 4-6 May, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Theme
2001-a Space Oddity. GoH: Lynne Abbey, Pat Turner, James
Earnest. Att. $30 ‘til 1/4/01, $45.00 on door. contact: 1410
Regan Ave, Coquitlam, BC, V3J 3B5, Canada.
http://www.v-con.org
* Keycon 18-20 May, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. GoH:Spider Robinson,
Phil & Kaja Foglio. Contact: PO Box, 3178, Winnipeg, MB, R3C
4E6, Canada (Kim at (+1-204)669-6053)).
Seccond: 25-27 May, Swindon, UK. GoH: Paul McAuley. Contact:
sec...@sjbradshaw.cix.co.uk; http://www.seccon.org.uk/
13th SF Days NRW: June, Germany. Cancelled. Check:
http://www.epilog.de/sftagenrw; sfta...@epilog.de
* Fantastika 2001(Swecon): 15-17 June, Stockholm, Sweden. GoH:
Karolina Bjallerstedt Mickos, Bjorn Tore Sund, Robin Hobb.
Att. 250 SEK ‘til 1/06/01. Contact: c.g...@telia.com;
tomas.c...@mbb.ki.se http://fantastika.dynarc.se/
* A Celebration of British SF: 28 June-1 July, Liverpool, UK.
GoH: Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, John Clute, Nicola
Griffith, Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod. Att. 235UKP all inc.
Contact: SF Foundation, 22 Adington Road, Reading, RG1 5PT,
UK.
PARCON: A Communication Odyssey - 20th Czech & Slovak nat con,
6-8 July, Czech Republic. SF&F, ST, Babylon 5, Discworld,
games, contests, SF&F story competition "Karel Capek Award",
videos &movies, party. Contact: lo...@babylon5.cz
Finncon: (Baltcon) 14-15 July, Jyvaskyla, Finland. Contact:
hirs...@jkl.fi; 4...@jyu.fi)
ConStruction: 27-29 July, UK. Con running. Contact:
ConStruction, 32 Theobald Road, Cardiff, CF5 1LP, UK. (email:
ConStr...@hotmail.com; http://members.xoom.com/con_stru
ct/)
Eurocon 2001: During August, Romania. Contact: sr...@yahoo.com
Odyssee:Aug/Sept, Germany. Cancelled. Check:
http://www.epilog.de/sftagenrw; sfta...@epilog.de
* Con-Version XVIII: 10-12 August, Calgary, AB, Canada.
GoH:David Drake, Jean-Pierre Normand. Contact: PO Box 20098,
Calgary Place RPO, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 4J2, Canada. (Fax
(+1-403) 277-4251 http://www.con-version.org)
Eboracon: 24-26 August, York, UK. Unicon. GoH: Douglas Hill,
Stan Nicholls, Ann Gaye. Att. 25UKP (20UKP student). Contact:
"sparks" Mike Rennie, 68 Crichton Avenue, Burton Stone Lane,
York, YO30 6EE, UK. (email: ebor...@psych.york.ac.uk;
http://www-u sers.york.ac.uk/~amr107/eboracon/index.html)
* HarmUni24-26 August, York, UK. Filkcon. GoH: Juliane
Honisch, Kerstin Dröge. Run joint with Eboracon. Contact:
http://www.filk.co.uk/harmuni.html
The Millenium Philcon (Worldcon): 30 August-1 September,
Philadelphia, PA, USA. GoH: Greg Bear, Stephen Youll, Gardner
Dozois, George Scithers. Contact: Suite 2001, 402 Huntingdon
Pike Rockledge, PA 19046 USA. (email:
phil...@unix3.netaxs.com; http://www.netaxs.com/~phil2001/)
Polcon 2001: Polish Nat Con. 13-16 September, Katowice,
Poland. GoH Robert Silverberg, Marek S Huberath, Dorota
Malinowska, Andrzej "Bilbo" Kowalski. Att. 55 zl ‘til
15/06/01, 65 zl ‘til 15/08/01, 75 zl ‘til 15/09/01. Contact:
Slaski Klub Fantastyki, 40-956 Katowice, skr. Poczt 502,
Poland. (Email s...@skf.from.hell.pl; http://www.skf.w.pl,
http://www.skf.from.hell.pl)
Hypotheticon: 22-23 September, Glasgow, Scotland. Att. 15 UKP
‘til 1/1/2001. Contact: Hypotheticon 2001, 25 Ravenscraig
Ave., Paisley, PA2 9QL, UK (email:
secr...@hypotheticon2001.co.uk)
* HispaCon ‘Salduba': Spanish National Con, 27-31 September,
Zaragoza, Spain. Contact: jo...@ctv.es; saga...@jazzfree.com
http://salduba2001.8k.com/
* Octocon 13-14 October, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. GoH: Anne
McCaffrey. Contact: http://www.octocon.com; email:
chai...@octocon.com UK Agt. D Lally, 64 Richborne Terrace,
London, SW8 1AX.
* Smofcon 19 7-9 December, York, UK. International Con running
con. Att. 25 UKP. Contact: KIM Campbell 69 Lincoln St Leeman
Rd. YORK YO26 4YP, UK. kcam...@cix.co.uk
2002
* Helicon 2 (Eastercon): 29 March - 1 April, Jersey, UK. Att.
30 UKP ‘til 28/2/01, then 35UKP. Contact: Helicon 2, 33
Meyrick Drive, Wash Common, Berkshire RG14 6SY, UK (email:
heli...@smof.demon.co.uk; http://www.smof.demon.co.uk
/helicon2.htm)
Downunder con festival: 1-30 June. SF con every weekend.
(Combined with a bid for Corflu) Contact: Eric Lindsay, PO Box
640, Airlie Beach, Qld 4802, Australia. (email:
er...@wrevenge.com.au)
Convergence: 41st Australian NatCon: 7-10 June, Melbourne,
Australia. GoH Joe Haldeman, Sean Williams, Gay Haldemandk,
Lucy Sussex, Jack Dann, Race Mathews. Contact:
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~conver ge/;
contact-c...@egroups.com
Eurocon 2002: 1-7 July, Chotebor (and Prague), Czech Republic.
Prague visit 1-3. Contact SFC Avalon, c/o
vaclav...@seznam.cz
Discworld Convention 2002: 16-19 August, Hinckley, UK. GoH:
Terry Pratchett. Contact: send an SAE to Discworld Convention
2002, 23 Medora Road, Romford, RM7 7EP, UK.
http://www.dwcon.org/; email: in...@dwcon.org; mailing list
http://www.dwcon.org/mai lman/listinfo/2002/
Con Jose (Worldcon): 29 August-2 September, 2002, San Jose,
USA. GoH Vernor Vinge, David Cherry, Bjo & John Trimble,
Ferdinand Feghoot, Tad Williams. Att. $120. Contact: Con Jose,
PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363, USA. (Email:
Con...@sfsfc.org; http://www.conjose.org/)
World Fantasy Con: 1-4 November, Montreal, PQ, Canada.
GoH:Fred Saberhagen. Contact: Bruce Farr, 7002 N.6th
Ave,Phoenix, AZ, 85021, USA; 200...@yahoo.com
2003
Torcon III (Worldcon): 28 August-1 September, Toronto, Canada.
Att: $170. GoH: George R.R. Martin Frank Kelly Freas Mike
Glyer, Spider Robinson, Robert Bloch. Contact: PO Box 3,
Station A, Toronto, ON, M5W 1A2, Canada, email:
in...@torcon3.on.ca http://www.torcon3.on.ca
2004
USA Boston in 2004 - Contact: in...@mcfi.org;
http://www.mcfi.org; or Tim or Marcia Illingworth; Charlotte
in 2004: Contact: charlo...@earthling.net;
http://scenic-city.com/charlot te2004/
2005
Great Britain Worldcon Bid 25/8/2005-29/8/2005. Location:
Glasgow. Pre-support: UKP5, Eur8, $8, A$12, NZ$15, Yen950.
Contact: UK in 2005, 379 Myrtle Road, Sheffield, S.Yorks, S2
3HQ, UK. (email: uk2...@hotmail.com; http://www.uk2005.org.uk)
2007
There are rumours of an Australian bid for Worldcon in
Melbourne: email Rose at mitc...@vicnet.net.au;get the gossip
at http://www.egroups.com/invi te/aussiecon4 Japan have
officially announced for 2007 details at:
http://www.nippon2007.org
2009
There are rumours that Australia may move to 2009...
(Most of) Fans Across the World is archived at:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Fatw/
Aussie events: Note that there is an annual calendar available
on the Vicnet SF web site at
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sfoz/2001cal.htm
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and fandom.
Fans Across the World Thanks for help, info, etc. to Dave
Langford, Roger Robinson, John Mansfield, Martin Hoare, Marc
Ortlieb, Piotr Cholewa, Jim Walker, David Stewart, Luis Prado
& others. Apologies for last month. The central heating broke
down completely, and I had no heating or hot water for
practically all of Decemberand the beginning of January. I'm
now trying out Hot Metal Pro for the HTML version. It has
become a bit of a software nightmare - Word Perfect as the
piece of software that talks to others, Pressworks as the DTP
software, and Hot Metal Pro to turn the DTP and text version
into HTML. It will all work in the end I'm sure. At least it
means that I don't get Word Perfect writing its own version of
HTML (I wouldn't let Word even try...).