Jo Walton will be at Bakka Phoenix on Saturday February 25th, to celebrate the trade paperback release of Among Others, an excellent novel. Come out if you can to meet her. It’s at 3 PM, it will be a great time, and there will be cookies!
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Another Green Alien T-shirt
Chesley, multiple Hugo, and Rotsler, Award winning artist Brad Foster is creating the colourful image that will illuminate SFContario 3′s convention t-shirt.
So far our favourite Texan artist has given SFContario his versions of Toronto landmarks CN Tower and the clamshell (City Hall).
This year?: “Hey, I love them geodesic dome things!”
Yes, Ontario Place, prominent in the memories of people who in the previous century went to the waterfront attraction to experience movies projected on the then-new, and revolutionary, IMAX screen.
SFContario membership rates going up
It will soon be a new year complete with new membership prices. When the ball drops at midnight tomorrow SFContario membership rates will be going up. Get the best price on your membership now.
SFContario video
Jeff DeLuzio has another great video summarizing some of the best of SFContario 2. Soundtrack is Peggi Warner-Lalonde singing Janis Ian’s “Welcome Home”.
Canvention 32 site selection
I’d like to invite everyone to participate in the site selection vote for Canvention 32. There are two bids, for VCON 37 in Vancouver and When Words Collide 2 in Calgary. This vote will be held at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, to be held at SFContario 2 on Saturday at 9 AM in the Gardenview room (of the Ramada Plaza Hotel). Bid representatives will be at the meeting to answer questions. Please have a look at the bid presentations on the SFContario website and help choose the site of next year’s Canadian national science fiction convention.
Scalzi reading at the Merril – Thursday night
Written November 14th, 2011 by Diane
Categories: convention, fandom, science fiction, Toronto
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You don’t have to wait until Friday for the fun to start. SFContario International Author Guest of Honour, John Scalzi, will give a public reading at the Merril Collection at 7 PM on Thursday night. On his blog, John says “I’ll likely read from Redshirts and then possibly a couple other things, and have a Q&A.”
All are welcome. More information here.
SFContario Idol
Do your opening words have readers begging for more? Can you grab their attention from the very first page? Let us be the judge!
Our presenter will read out the first page of your manuscript (anonymously) until a majority of our panel of judges ‘buzz’ the story to a stop. Discussion ensues on why they stopped it, what didn’t work and what did work. Don’t miss this chance to wow them with your engaging story openings and get immediate valuable feedback.
Our judges, subject to change, will be Gardner Dozois, Sandra Kasturi, Virginia O’Dine, Robert J Sawyer, and Michael Swanwick
To participate in SFContario Idol bring the first page of your manuscript, in an envelope, to registration by 1pm on Saturday. Put your name on the envelope, but not on your manuscript.
pre-order your t-shirt!
fuzzies and airships and what?
Check out the art Steve Stiles has done for t-shirts at SFContario 2! You can pre-order a t-shirt on our website and pick it up at the con.
photographer wanted
We’ve been asked to photograph and video the Aurora Award ceremony, and the CSFFA general meeting earlier that morning. We can use an extra hand to cover this. If you’d like to help us with this, please contact us at auroras2011@sfcontario.ca.
Aurora Banquet Tickets
The deadline for ordering tickets for the Aurora Banquet is 11:00AM Tuesday, November 15th. There will be a very limited number of tickets available at the con, but if you want to go, get your tickets now! You can purchase banquet tickets online on our website.
