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scifi season listings

io9's Complete Guide to Science Fiction Season

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 »

8:40 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Annalee Newitz
7,109 views, 49 comments

Latest by DSTRYA: @XMACHINA: don't spoil the magic, XMACHINA. i love Space mountain, but only when the lights are OUT. dig? more »

Automated Science Fiction Convention Finder You know you're living in the future when somebody builds a web application to help you find the science fiction conventions nearest to your zip code. Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow points us to the just-born "Convention Finder," a creation of SpaceWesterns editor Nathan Lilly. Now it's up to us to help make Convention Finder a success by adding every convention you know about to the database. Says Lilly: "Spread the word to your various fan groups and/or, if you know of a convention that's coming up in your area that would be of interest to geeks in general, please feel free to submit it yourself to the convention finder (just make sure that you have the venue's zip code)." [Convention Finder via BoingBoing]

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triviagasm

A History Of The Science Fiction Convention

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 »

12:30 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,254 views, 9 comments

Latest by Gernsback2001: The bunch of guys went from NYC to Philadelphia, not the other way around. The first comic-Con was in NYC in 1965. I ran off the program on my ditto machine. There have been numerous comic-cons since, much earlier than you more »

doctor who

The Most Confusing Doctor Who Era, Explained

Ever wanted to know what was really going on during the final seasons of time-travel show Doctor Who's original run? When it got all mystifying, with the darkly significant Victorian chambermaids and hints about the Doctor's secret past? Now you can ask Sylvester McCoy, who starred in those episodes, and Andrew Cartmel, who was in charge of the scripts, what was the deal. They're both appearing at Gallifrey One, an annual convention in Los Angeles, this weekend. Also appearing: a few writers for the new series and Mojo, who does visual effects for Battlestar Galactica. [Gallifrey One, via Justin]

10:52 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,031 views, 22 comments

Latest by JennaW: @Bazza2556: *points* *laughs* more »

nepotism

It Takes An Incestuous Village To Publish Science Fiction

How nepotistic is written science fiction? There are only a small number of worthy places to get published, and editors tend to publish people they already know, writes Carol Pinchefsky in a new essay. She claims one editor at a large publisher gave his girlfriend a huge advance for her book, and boasted about having made his next house payment. But top editors swear up and down that friendships don't influence their publishing decisions. Not that it would hurt to buy them a few drinks at your next convention. Mars dome image from NASA. [Intergalactic Medicine Show]

3:00 PM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By charliejane
882 views, 25 comments

Latest by Cacafuego: Actually, what's been described isn't "nepotism" (the hiring of relatives) it's "favoritism" or "patronage" (the hiring of people you like or are dedicated to supporting). more »