Con stuff...
'noon all...
Just a couple of details that people may be interested in... Sci-Fi con
stuff... I've not actually ever been to any myself, but I plan to and
thought I'd pass on some details. I don't know which (if any) I'm going to,
but I'll probably aim for Wincon & 2Kon if I can afford them...
WINCON V
13-15 August 1999,
King Alfred's College, Winchester
GOH Diana Wynne Jones (famous mainly as a writer
of children's fantasy, but also adult work such as The Tough Guide to
Fantasyland and A Sudden Wild Magic)
Attending Membership 25 per person (unless it's gone up, but I don't
think it has), cheques payable to 'Wincon'. Accommodation 25 per
person per night (no mention of whether breakfast is included, which
is ominous)
Contact : Wincon V, 53 Havant Road, North End, Portsmouth PO2 7HH
also www.pompey.demon.co.uk/wincon.htm
and wincon@
Novacon 29
5-7 November 1999
Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham
GOH Ian Stewart (Mathematician and SF Fan, close associate of Jack
Cohen, if you've ever heard of him. Writes the Mathematical
Recreations column in Scientific American)
Contact : Carol Morton, 14 Park Street, Lye, Stourbridge, West
Midlands, DY9 8SS. Phone 01384 825386 before 9pm.
Attending Membership WAS 28 per person until Easter, but may have
gone up since then. Accommodation 37.50 per person per night in
twin/double rooms, 42.50 per night for single room, both including
breakfast.
Novacon is probably the second-biggest regular british annual con,
usually getting about 150-250 people and is usually held in Birmingham
on the first weekend in November. As well as the GOH, you can
reasonably expect a fair few other people you've heard of to be
present too, if only as guests who are no more involved than you are
(e.g. the aforementioned Dr Cohen, Dave Langford, Iain Banks, Harry
Harrison, Pat Cadigan and Paul McAuley are often at Novacons).
2Kon (Eastercon 2000)
21-24 April 2000
Central Hotel, Glasgow
GOH : Katherine Kurtz (US fantasy author), Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy Author
again), Deborah Turner-Harris (???) and Dr John Salthouse (A specialist in
fings wot go BANG.)
Contact : 2Kon, 30 Woodburn Terrace, St Andrews, KY16 8BA
Also http://www-theory.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/2kon
and 2kon@
Attending membership 25 per person until 30th sept 1999 (rising to
30 thereafter). Accommodation 30 per person per night including
breakfast. There probably won't be enough room for everyone in the
Central Hotel - but the overflow hotels are very close, apparently.
To stand a chance of getting in the Central, hotel booking forms must
be in by 1st October 1999. NB if you're on a tight budget, remember
that this con is a day longer than the others (Friday to Monday, 3
nights in the hotel as opposed to 2)
Adrian Long / Eggwhite
Centre for Neural Computing Applications
Brunel University, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0JZ. UK.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cnca
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~dtpgaml/
Just a couple of details that people may be interested in... Sci-Fi con
stuff... I've not actually ever been to any myself, but I plan to and
thought I'd pass on some details. I don't know which (if any) I'm going to,
but I'll probably aim for Wincon & 2Kon if I can afford them...
WINCON V
13-15 August 1999,
King Alfred's College, Winchester
GOH Diana Wynne Jones (famous mainly as a writer
of children's fantasy, but also adult work such as The Tough Guide to
Fantasyland and A Sudden Wild Magic)
Attending Membership 25 per person (unless it's gone up, but I don't
think it has), cheques payable to 'Wincon'. Accommodation 25 per
person per night (no mention of whether breakfast is included, which
is ominous)
Contact : Wincon V, 53 Havant Road, North End, Portsmouth PO2 7HH
also www.pompey.demon.co.uk/wincon.htm
and wincon@
Novacon 29
5-7 November 1999
Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham
GOH Ian Stewart (Mathematician and SF Fan, close associate of Jack
Cohen, if you've ever heard of him. Writes the Mathematical
Recreations column in Scientific American)
Contact : Carol Morton, 14 Park Street, Lye, Stourbridge, West
Midlands, DY9 8SS. Phone 01384 825386 before 9pm.
Attending Membership WAS 28 per person until Easter, but may have
gone up since then. Accommodation 37.50 per person per night in
twin/double rooms, 42.50 per night for single room, both including
breakfast.
Novacon is probably the second-biggest regular british annual con,
usually getting about 150-250 people and is usually held in Birmingham
on the first weekend in November. As well as the GOH, you can
reasonably expect a fair few other people you've heard of to be
present too, if only as guests who are no more involved than you are
(e.g. the aforementioned Dr Cohen, Dave Langford, Iain Banks, Harry
Harrison, Pat Cadigan and Paul McAuley are often at Novacons).
2Kon (Eastercon 2000)
21-24 April 2000
Central Hotel, Glasgow
GOH : Katherine Kurtz (US fantasy author), Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy Author
again), Deborah Turner-Harris (???) and Dr John Salthouse (A specialist in
fings wot go BANG.)
Contact : 2Kon, 30 Woodburn Terrace, St Andrews, KY16 8BA
Also http://www-theory.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/2kon
and 2kon@
Attending membership 25 per person until 30th sept 1999 (rising to
30 thereafter). Accommodation 30 per person per night including
breakfast. There probably won't be enough room for everyone in the
Central Hotel - but the overflow hotels are very close, apparently.
To stand a chance of getting in the Central, hotel booking forms must
be in by 1st October 1999. NB if you're on a tight budget, remember
that this con is a day longer than the others (Friday to Monday, 3
nights in the hotel as opposed to 2)
Adrian Long / Eggwhite
Centre for Neural Computing Applications
Brunel University, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0JZ. UK.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cnca
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~dtpgaml/