SF con: Picocon Saturday 10th Feb
EEK!!!
Picocon is this Saturday. that's a small friendly SF Con at Imperial
College!!! Look here...
I'll just cut and paste as I'm rushed!!
Picocon 18
Saturday 10th February, 2001 - in the Imperial College Students Union Guests
of Honour - Christopher Priest author of Inverted World
Geoff Ryman author of 253
Juliet E. McKenna author of The Einarinn Tales
Jane Killick writer of The Babylon 5 Season by Season Guides
sadly Dave Langford editor of Ansible is unable to join us.
Time Events Location
10am Registration 1st Floor landing
11am Geoff Ryman UCH
12am Jane Killick UCH
1pm Lunch
Destruction of Dodgy Merchandise - dunking of naff stuff in liquid nitrogen
UCH
2pm Christopher Priest UCH
3pm Panel UCH
4pm Juliet McKenna UCH
5pm Pub Quiz UDH
6pm The Matrix UCH
Other events include Dalek Racing, an Easter Egg Hunt, about a dozen
networked pcs running Unreal Tournament, Starcraft and Worms Armagedon The
day is rounded off with The Matrix (starting at 6pm) shown in the IC Cinema.
Registration starts at 10am and costs are:
Standard Entry - 8
Students - 5
icsf members - 2
The Matrix will be free for those registered for the convention (last
admission 5pm)and 3 for anyone else who wants to come along.
The event takes place in the Imperial College Union, Beit Quad, Prince
Consort Road, South Kensington.
Nearest Tube - South Kensington
Follow signs for Imperial College in Pedestrian Tunnel, continue north to
junction and turn left into Prince Consort Road. IC Union is approximately
half way along the road, underneath green and blue scaffolding.
For further information please e-mail the organiser John Kirk at
john@
Christopher Priest began publishing SF in 1966 with "The Run" for Impulse.
His first novel was Indoctinaire (1970; rev 1979) and was followed by others
such as Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972) and Inverted World (1974). His
latest book is The Dream Archipelago, a collection of stories dealing with
war and versions of reality. He was also associate editor of Foundation
1974-7 and ha produced several anthologies including Stars of Albion with
Robert Holdstock.
Chris Priest attended Picocon 13 in 1996 and you can find his website here.
Geoff Ryman's first publication was "The Diary of the Translator" for NW in
1976. His magazine version of The Unconquered Country: A Life of History
(1984, Interzone) won the British Science Fiction Award and the World
Fantasy Award. His first full length novel was The Warrior Who Carried Life
(1985) a fantasy quest and his second, The Child Garden: A Low Comedy (1987
Interzone) won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award. He has two new books published this year Lust on the 5th of February,
and an as yet untitled hardback released in June. He has also created an
internet book - 253, about the people on a tube journey.
Juliet E. McKenna is a relatively new author with three books out set in the
land of Einarinn, The Thief's Gamble, The Swordsman's Oath and the recently
published Gambler's Fortune. The stories are fantasy based but with a large
amount of witty observation which means the books appeal even to those who
don't generally enjoy fantasy. Juliet's website makes a much better job of
describing her work than I could.
Juliet attended last year's Picocon and has also spoken at a Freshers' event
about world building and publishing.
Jane Killick began her writing career with articles for the Red Dwarf
Smegazine. She later moved on to write the authorised companion for the
Judge Dredd film, and is perhaps best known for the Babylon 5
Season-by-Season guides. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/icsf/
Jenny Gould
Runnymede Herald larp.herald@ jenny@
01784 431998 OOC/IC 07970 820687 IC larp.blondie@
Roleplay Boardgames Killercon 2/3/4th March 2001
85 St Judes Road, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey TW20 0DF, England
"Share and Enjoy"
-Marketing Division, Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Picocon is this Saturday. that's a small friendly SF Con at Imperial
College!!! Look here...
I'll just cut and paste as I'm rushed!!
Picocon 18
Saturday 10th February, 2001 - in the Imperial College Students Union Guests
of Honour - Christopher Priest author of Inverted World
Geoff Ryman author of 253
Juliet E. McKenna author of The Einarinn Tales
Jane Killick writer of The Babylon 5 Season by Season Guides
sadly Dave Langford editor of Ansible is unable to join us.
Time Events Location
10am Registration 1st Floor landing
11am Geoff Ryman UCH
12am Jane Killick UCH
1pm Lunch
Destruction of Dodgy Merchandise - dunking of naff stuff in liquid nitrogen
UCH
2pm Christopher Priest UCH
3pm Panel UCH
4pm Juliet McKenna UCH
5pm Pub Quiz UDH
6pm The Matrix UCH
Other events include Dalek Racing, an Easter Egg Hunt, about a dozen
networked pcs running Unreal Tournament, Starcraft and Worms Armagedon The
day is rounded off with The Matrix (starting at 6pm) shown in the IC Cinema.
Registration starts at 10am and costs are:
Standard Entry - 8
Students - 5
icsf members - 2
The Matrix will be free for those registered for the convention (last
admission 5pm)and 3 for anyone else who wants to come along.
The event takes place in the Imperial College Union, Beit Quad, Prince
Consort Road, South Kensington.
Nearest Tube - South Kensington
Follow signs for Imperial College in Pedestrian Tunnel, continue north to
junction and turn left into Prince Consort Road. IC Union is approximately
half way along the road, underneath green and blue scaffolding.
For further information please e-mail the organiser John Kirk at
john@
Christopher Priest began publishing SF in 1966 with "The Run" for Impulse.
His first novel was Indoctinaire (1970; rev 1979) and was followed by others
such as Fugue for a Darkening Island (1972) and Inverted World (1974). His
latest book is The Dream Archipelago, a collection of stories dealing with
war and versions of reality. He was also associate editor of Foundation
1974-7 and ha produced several anthologies including Stars of Albion with
Robert Holdstock.
Chris Priest attended Picocon 13 in 1996 and you can find his website here.
Geoff Ryman's first publication was "The Diary of the Translator" for NW in
1976. His magazine version of The Unconquered Country: A Life of History
(1984, Interzone) won the British Science Fiction Award and the World
Fantasy Award. His first full length novel was The Warrior Who Carried Life
(1985) a fantasy quest and his second, The Child Garden: A Low Comedy (1987
Interzone) won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award. He has two new books published this year Lust on the 5th of February,
and an as yet untitled hardback released in June. He has also created an
internet book - 253, about the people on a tube journey.
Juliet E. McKenna is a relatively new author with three books out set in the
land of Einarinn, The Thief's Gamble, The Swordsman's Oath and the recently
published Gambler's Fortune. The stories are fantasy based but with a large
amount of witty observation which means the books appeal even to those who
don't generally enjoy fantasy. Juliet's website makes a much better job of
describing her work than I could.
Juliet attended last year's Picocon and has also spoken at a Freshers' event
about world building and publishing.
Jane Killick began her writing career with articles for the Red Dwarf
Smegazine. She later moved on to write the authorised companion for the
Judge Dredd film, and is perhaps best known for the Babylon 5
Season-by-Season guides. She is currently working on a novel.
http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/icsf/
Jenny Gould
Runnymede Herald larp.herald@ jenny@
01784 431998 OOC/IC 07970 820687 IC larp.blondie@
Roleplay Boardgames Killercon 2/3/4th March 2001
85 St Judes Road, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey TW20 0DF, England
"Share and Enjoy"
-Marketing Division, Sirius Cybernetics Corporation