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SFContario is a general-interest science fiction convention held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Society of Upper Canada. The first convention took place on November 19–21, 2010, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Toronto. The guests of honour were author Michael Swanwick, writers and editors Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, fan Geri Sullivan, filk musician Karen Linsley, artist Billy Tackett, and toastmaster Robert J. Sawyer. The convention chair was Alexander von Thorn. Events at the convention included panels on science fiction and fantasy, writing, science, fan history and conventions, and media, as well as author readings, autograph signings, an interview with expatriate American SF writer and HUAC victim Chandler Davis, kaffeeklatsches, a ceremony presenting pins to past Prix Aurora Award nominees, a masquerade, an art show, a charity auction, filk concerts, bid and other parties, an anime room, and an improv fundraiser for the Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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SFContario is a general-interest science fiction convention held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Society of Upper Canada. The first convention took place on November 19–21, 2010, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Toronto. The guests of honour were author Michael Swanwick, writers and editors Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, fan Geri Sullivan, filk musician Karen Linsley, artist Billy Tackett, and toastmaster Robert J. Sawyer. The convention chair was Alexander von Thorn. Events at the convention included panels on science fiction and fantasy, writing, science, fan history and conventions, and media, as well as author readings, autograph signings, an interview with expatriate American SF writer and HUAC victim Chandler Davis, kaffeeklatsches, a ceremony presenting pins to past Prix Aurora Award nominees, a masquerade, an art show, a charity auction, filk concerts, bid and other parties, an anime room, and an improv fundraiser for the Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Impatient may refer to: * "Impatient" (Anna Abreu song) * "Impatient" (Jeremih song) * "Impatient", a song by Blu Cantrell from the album '' Bittersweet'' See also * ''Impatiens ''Impatiens'' is a genus of more than 1,000 species of flowering plants, widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics. Together with the genus ''Hydrocera'' (one species), ''Impatiens'' make up the family Balsaminaceae. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Event may refer to: Gatherings of people * Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest * Event management, the organization of events * Festival, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community * Happening, a type of artistic performance * Media event, an event created for publicity * Party, a social, recreational or corporate events held * Sporting event, at which athletic competition takes place * Virtual event, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment Science, technology, and mathematics * Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click * Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object * Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned * Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Conventions In Canada
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
File 770
''File 770'' is a long-running science fiction fanzine, newszine, and blog site published/administered by Mike Glyer. It has been published every year since 1978, and has won a record eight Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine, with the first win in 1984 and the most recent in 2018. History File 770 is named after the legendary room party held in Room 770 at Nolacon, the 9th World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, that upstaged the other events at the 1951 Worldcon. Glyer started ''File 770'' in 1978 as a mimeographed print fanzine to report on fan clubs, conventions, fannish projects, fans, fanzines and SF awards, with articles written in a "no-nonsense style". In the 1990s, Glyer moved production of the fanzine to computer desktop publishing, and on January 15, 2008, he began publishing ''File 770'' as a blog on the internet. A print version of ''File 770'' has been produced every year from 1978 to the present. eFanzines.com began hosting PDF versions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Kyle
David A. Kyle (February 14, 1919 – September 18, 2016) was an American science fiction writer and member of science fiction fandom. Professional career Kyle served as a reporter in the Air Force Reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel, writing civil defense material, while working at radio station WPDM in Potsdam, New York. With Martin Greenberg, Kyle founded Gnome Press in 1948. He wrote two pictorial histories of science fiction (''A Pictorial History of Science Fiction'' and ''The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Ideas and Dreams'') and three licensed novels set in the Lensman universe (''The Dragon Lensman'', ''Lensman from Rigel'' and ''Z-Lensman''). He appeared with Paul Levinson, Greg Bear and many others on the History Channel's 2002 documentary, ''Fantastic Voyage: Evolution of Science Fiction''. He died at the age of 97 on September 18, 2016. Fandom Kyle, an active fan since the earliest days of organized science fiction fandom, was an original member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978 in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series. In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the World Science Fiction Convention. Her 2016 novella '' Every Heart a Doorway'' received a Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and Alex Award. In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and three under her own name. Biography McGuire was born in California and attended University of California, Berkeley. She currently lives in Washington State. She has described her interests as including "swamps, long walks, long walks ''in'' swamps, things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality TV, comic bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher J Garcia
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes " Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh and Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel ''Among Others'', which won the Hugo Award, Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and ''Tooth and Claw (novel), Tooth and Claw'', a Victorian era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Other works by Walton include the ''Small Change'' series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising ''Farthing (novel), Farthing'', ''Ha'penny (novel), Ha'penny'' and ''Half a Crown (novel), Half a Crown''. Her fantasy novel ''Lifelode'' won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history ''My Real Children'' received the 2015 Tiptree Award. Walton is also known for her non-fiction, including book reviews and SF commentary in the magazine ''Tor.com''. A collection of her articles were published in ''What Makes This Book So Great'' (2014), which won the Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction. Background Walton w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canvention
Canvention is the Canada, Canadian national science fiction convention, where the Prix Aurora Awards are presented. Normally it is held as part of an existing convention. Conventions The list of past Canventions may be referenced in the programme books of the hosting conventions.Torcon 3 Programme Book * 2019: CAN-CON (convention) 2019 will host in Ottawa, Ontario on October 18-20, 2019 * 2018: VCON 42 held in Richmond, British Columbia, Richmond, BC on October 05-07, 2018 * 2017: Hal-Con 2017 held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax on September 22-24, 2017 * 2016: When Words Collide, held in Calgary on August 12-14, 2016 * 2015: SFContario, SFContario 6, was held on November 20-22, 2015 * 2014: VCON 39, was held in Vancouver on October 3-5, 2014 * 2013: CAN-CON (convention), CAN-CON, was held in Ottawa on October 4-6, 2013 * 2012: When Words Collide, held in Calgary on August 10-12, 2012 * 2011: SFContario, SFContario 2, held in Toronto on November 18–20 * 2010: Keycon 27, held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Dozois
Gardner Raymond Dozois ( ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018) was an American people, American science fiction author and editing, editor. He was the founding editor of ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'' anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo Award, Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the EMP Museum#Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011. Biography Dozois was born July 23, 1947, in Salem, Massachusetts. He graduated from Salem High School (Massachusetts), Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the United States Army, Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. One of his stories had been published by Frederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue of ''If (magazine), If'' but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
