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It looks like the British are sick of invading. A new San Diego-scale comic convention has been announced, and it will be taking place in London. More »
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Heads up to West Coast io9ers — a Lovecraft-themed gathering will be going down in Portland this weekend. The list of events includes screenings of eldritch cinema and literature, an appearance from Stuart Gordon, and other sundry mind-bending activities. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5649109&view=rss&microfeed=true If any of you are going to be at Wiscon this weekend in Madison, say hi to Charlie Jane, Nivair, and myself! We'll all be there wandering around hoping to find awesomely cool books, as well as dropping in on many of the excellent panels planned for the con. So if you see us, tell us about what you're reading, and what you'd recommend! Nivair is there currently, and Charlie Jane and I are on a plane right now, arriving late this evening. More »
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It's time for the annual science fiction season to begin. Spring and summer are when giant science fiction flicks hit the screens, and even more giant science fiction conventions open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of light saber-wielding masses. New television series will debut (Clone Wars!), and old ones will restart (Battlestar!) Plus, you'll have a chance to snap up copies of awesome new books from Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Nancy Kress. If you want to know where to go and what to do when you're in a science fictional way from April to August, then look no further than io9's exhaustive, amazing, intensive list of everything scifi this season. More »
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History is fuzzy about when the first science fiction convention actually happened, but we do know that in 1936 some fans including David Kyle and Frederik Pohl took a train from Philadelphia to New York City to talk about all things scifi with another group of fans at the home of Milton A. Rothman, who rivals Forrest J Ackerman for the biggest fanboy in the world award (Rothman had formed The Boys' Scientifiction Club in 1930). However, a group of British fans also got together in the same year to make plans for an actual convention in 1937, and later claimed that a group of fans meeting at a home does not a convention make. So even before the internet, there was squabbling over details and probably even convention spoilers. Some things will never change. In honor of our coverage of WonderCon, we present to you the history of Connage. More »
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The Australian government might have come up with the most brilliant prison plan ever: use hardened criminals to churn out replicas of science fiction props, and then sell them on eBay. Sadly, they aren't using the money to fund the development of robot prison guards — all proceeds are going to charity. The fools. Why not keep that dough and buy yourself a high tech lair? More »
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If you love science fiction and comic books, and you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, there's nothing more pleasing than Wondercon. From February 22 to 24, San Francisco's Moscone Center will be packed with cool artists, fat longboxes full of tasty comic treats, and panels about everything from the new season of Jericho to the coolest female superheroes. (Yes the entire cast of Jericho will be there.) io9 will be there too, and we're having nerdgasms about pretty much everything. More »
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