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The io9 Guide To December Science Fiction Awesomeness

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:03:23 PST

December isn't a quiet month for science fiction. There's James Cameron's long-awaited Avatar and Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones, double Dollhouse helpings, and rare appearances by Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman and Mary Doria Russell. Encompass your future!

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF by clicking here.

Research by Cyriaque Lamar. Design and layout by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To November Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:24:48 PDT

November brings with it Prisoners and Visitors, plus a couple of huge apocalyptic movies, and a new Douglas Coupland tripfest. You can't escape from the future, but you can master it — with the io9 calendar.

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF by clicking here.

This time around, we're not sticking an hyperlinks in the PDF version of this calendar, because that makes it way harder to make corrections to the calendar when people point out problems. Instead, here's a list of all the conventions in November, with URLs:

Friday the 6th:
Aki Con
Neko Con (thru Sun) Convention
Pacific Media Expo

Saturday the 7th:
Zenkaikon
King Con Brooklyn
Cincinnati Comic and Anime Convention

Sunday the 8th:
Seattle ComiCard Convention
Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention

Friday the 13th:
Dotcon
Izumicon
New England Fan Experience
Windycon

Friday the 20th:
Anime Crossroads
Anime USA
Another Anime Convention
Bishie Con
Daisho Con
Yule Con
Philcon
Zona Con

Saturday the 21st.:
Boston Super Megafest
Virginia Comic-Con

Friday the 27th.:

Tomodachi Fest
OryCon
Chicago Tardis 2009

Saturday the 28th.:
Atlanta Anime Day

Research by Cyriaque Lamar. Design by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To October Science Fiction - Updated!

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:40:00 PDT

Gaze forward in time a whole month, with the io9 science fiction calendar for October. Highlights include tons of conventions, the worlds of Neil Gaiman, and Scott Westerfeld's mecha-vs-monsters World War I epic Leviathan. Update: Corrected version now available.

Sorry it took us so long to get a corrected version up — Stephanie is on the road, and I was too swamped this week to sit down and go through the calendar before it went up, as much as I shoudl have. Next month's calendar should go much, much more smoothly. We think.

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - with hyperlinks to books and conventions - by clicking here.

Research by Alexis Brown. Design by Stephanie Fox.

Send Your Calendar Items To The io9 Calendar!

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:42:20 PDT

Got an upcoming convention, book signing or cyborg-themed orgy, and want to make sure it shows up in the mighty io9 calendar? Here's your last chance to send it to calendar@io9.com and get it listed!

The io9 Guide To September Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:11:24 PDT

Fine tune your Futurescope for the coming month, and discover what your future self is watching, reading and doing. The fall TV season begins, plus there are tons of books, conventions and movies. Tomorrow is here — today!

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - with hyperlinks to books and conventions - by clicking here.

Research by Alexis Brown. Design by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To August Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:20:00 PDT

Our space/time visualizer looks a few weeks into the future, showing you what delights and horrors await you. This month: a new Stephen Baxter book, a few fascinating movies... and WorldCon! Venture into future history, with the io9 calendar!

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - with hyperlinks to books and conventions - by clicking here. And I'll be making changes to it on the fly, so if there are any inaccuracies or omissions, please comment or ping me via email.

Research by Alexis Brown. Design by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To July Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:31:48 PDT

Of course you're interested in the future, for that is where you will be buying books, going to movies, and watching TV shows. As the summer movie season winds down, the convention season heats up in our July calendar!

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - with hyperlinks to books and conventions - by clicking here. And welcome back Stephanie Fox on calendar design duties!

Research by Alexis Brown. Design by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To June Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:30:00 PDT

Journey into the future, with the io9 guide to everything science fictional in June! Find out everything that will be thrilling you for the coming month, including new books, tons of DVDs, and a bunch of conventions.

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - with hyperlinks to books and conventions - by clicking here.

Research by Alasdair Wilkins. Design by Stephanie Fox. Layout by Charlie Jane Anders.

The io9 Guide To May Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:19:43 PDT

Here, at last, is the official io9 guide to everything science-fictional in May. Including Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Robert J. Sawyer on tour, a ton of conventions... and the alarming-sounding Richard Hatch Cruise.

There's always an element of time travel involved in the io9 calendar - we're bringing you the future of science fiction entertainment! - but this time around, you'll have to travel back in time to late April, when this calendar should have gone up. Blame computer problems that turned my Apple computer into an expensive brick, and left me having to reinstall every piece of software from scratch.

As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF - now with hyperlinks for books and conventions - by clicking here.

Research by Alasdair Wilkins. Design by Stephanie Fox. Layout by Charlie Jane Anders.

The io9 Guide To April Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:30:00 PDT

April may be the cruelest month, but at least it's jam-packed with science fiction conventions. Sarah Connor Chronicles' second season ends, and there's new Ray Bradbury. Oh, and there's Dragonball and Crank 2 as well.

As always, the whole shebang is online as a printable PDF here.

This month's conventions include Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, WillyCon, I-Con 28, Cinema Wasteland, Norwescon, Minicon, JordanCon, Xanadu Las Vegas, FX Show, Star Fest, Chiller Theater and Conestoga.

Notable books include Ballistic Babes by John Zakour and Lawrence Ganem, Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake, WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer, Contact with Chaos by Michael Z. Williamson, The Immortality Factor by Ben Bova, The Oracle Paradox by Steve Antczak, Of Wind And Sand by Sylvie Borard, Genesis by Bernard Beckett, The Grand Conjunction: Astropolis by Sean Williams, The Moonpool: A Novel by P.T. Deutermann, Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi and Marionettes, Inc. by Ray Bradbury.

Research by Alasdair Wilkins. Design by Stephanie Fox. Layout by Charlie Jane Anders.

The io9 Guide To March Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:00:00 PST

March has already started - which means we have to travel back in time a couple days, before giving you the complete rundown on your science fictional future this month.

Book highlights include William Gibson's Spook Country in paperback, Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God, Allen Steele's Coyote Horizon, Alastair Reynolds' House Of Suns, Peter F. Hamilton's The Temporal Void, and Walter Jon Williams' This Is Not A Game. The Real Ghostbusters and Voltron come to DVD, along with the unfortunate Howard The Duck. And in theaters, there's Watchmen, Witch Mountain, Knowing and Monsters Versus Aliens.

As always, a printable PDF is here.

Research by Alasdair Wilkins. Design by Stephanie Fox. Layout by Charlie Jane Anders.

The io9 Guide To February Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:38 PST

Recharge your future-scope, with the latest installment of io9's monthly calendar of everything happening in science fiction. There are conventions, books, movies... and the launch of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

As always, a printable PDF is here.

Research by Alasdair Wilkins. Design by Stephanie Fox. Layout by Charlie Jane Anders.

The io9 Guide To Everything Science Fictional In January

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:03:49 PST

What will you be doing in 2009? The io9 calendar has the answer — at least for January. Here's a handy guide to movies, DVDs, TV, books, conventions and book-signings next month. PDF below.

Once again, the PDF version has hyperlinks to Amazon and convention homepages. You can download it here.

Research by Katharine Duckett. Graphic by the amazing Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To December Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:10:19 PST

The giant engine of the holiday season has just cranked into high gear - but there's plenty of other stuff to look forward to in December. A ton of awesome new science fiction books and DVDs are coming out, plus some brave souls are still organizing conventions in mid-December. Here's our calendar of everything awesome in December - with a PDF version that includes hyperlinks.

You can download the PDF version of the calendar here. And if there's an amazing event in January that we absolutely must cover, drop us a line at calendar@io9.com. Happy holidays!

Graphic by the amazing Stephanie Fox. Research by Katharine Duckett.

The io9 Guide To November Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:30:00 PDT

Time is a precious, dwindling commodity - almost as if a raging time-eater from beyond our universe was intruding into our space and munching on our time/space continuum. There are always more cool conventions, books, TV shows and movies than you'll ever have time for. Your only hope is to plan ahead! That's why we've jumped forward into your personal future, and compiled this handy calendar of all the things you'll regret missing in November, as a downloadable PDF. Now with updates! You can download this calendar as a PDF here. As always, you can send us calendar tips at calendar@io9.com. (That email address should be working now.) Research by Katharine Duckett. Design by Stephanie Fox.

The io9 Guide To October Science Fiction

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:30:00 PDT

Unless you have your own fully functional time/space travel machine, there's only so much you can do in any given month. That's why we're helping you plan ahead, with the official io9 guide to October. It includes conventions, movies, TV shows, book releases and author appearances. Plus a handy printable PDF version! You can download the whole thing as a printable PDF here. Additional reporting/research by Katharine Duckett. Graphic design by Stephanie Fox.