Past society events

Picocon is a tiny (hence the name) convention organised by Imperial College's own Science Fiction society. There'll be all manner of events through out the day, most notably readings/talks given by the Guests of Honour. This year's crop of famous authors are Adrian Czajkowski, Justina Robson and Tricia Sullivan.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

It's Valentine's Day, so we're going to make you feel all gooey inside (not like that) by showing you Up, the 2009 Pixar film about an old man who tethers his house to thousands of balloons and goes on a fantastical journey to South America, with an unlikely travelling companion.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Set in a world in which people love their lives through remote controlled 'surrogates', Surrogates stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent who has to go in to the real world to investigate an impossible murder.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

To quote Wikipedia, "Ponyo" is:"(Gake no Ue no Ponyo, literally "Ponyo on the Cliff"), is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Sean Connery runs around in an orange nappy shooting people.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a guy who does some stuff in this film from the guy that directed Moon (who is also David Bowie's son).

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Our first film of the new term will be Thor, the superhero movie directed by celebrated Shakespearian thesp Kenneth Branagh. As far as I'm aware, this is his first comic-book adaptation. Anyway, Thor (played by him off Home and Away) is the disgraced heir to the fantastic realm of Asgard, who gets exiled to Earth and has to stop the evil Frost Giants taking over the universe. Just like Hamlet.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

So here is the menu. Costs are 13quid for members and 18quid for non-members. As well as the 3 courses below you also got a glass of mulled wine.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

We tried to show it last year. We didn't. We're showing it this year. Oh yeah. It's Christmas time (there's no need to be afraid) so to get in the mood we're watching The Muppet Christmas Carol. Which has ghosts in it, so it's fantasy. Michael Caine stars as Ebenezer Scrooge, while Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchitt, and, oh, you know all the rest.