if you have not seen Chris Garcia’s speech upon winning the Best Fanzine Hugo Award, last year in Reno Nevada during Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon.
See it now, or see it again: it’s still amusing. One of Chris’s four 2012 Hugo nominations is for this speech.
And here are all of the 2012 Hugo Awards nominations.
The voting is now open for this year’s CUFF delegacy to the Canvention at When Words Collide in Calgary this August.
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!
If you have not started, you still have a few days to write a story to submit to the inaugural Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest.
Deadline is Feb. 15.
For details see Friends of the Merril Contest.
Nomination deadline: Feb. 29, 2012
What: Eastern Canadian fan represents Canadian fandom east of Manitoba at the 2012 Canvention in Calgary
CUFF Delegate attends: When Words Collide .
See 2012 Campaign Information .
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.
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.
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.
Along with the Aurora voting extension, SFContario will be extending the current membership rate of $55 until October 17. Please use our online registration page to register for the convention.
On October 18, the full attending membership rate will become $65. Other rates (young adult, child, charter) will also be increased accordingly. Online registration will still be accepted up to and during the convention.
Progress Report #2 is now online. PDF vesions for online reading and for offline printing, also .epub and .mobi versions for e-readers and smartphones. We will email the link to our members shortly.
