If there’s anything SF readers and watchers, gamers and otakus enjoy more than their particular hobbies, it’s getting together to talk with like minded people. Doing so on tor.com is great, as is doing it in person.
What follows is a list of some of the events that will happen over the month of June 2011. It in no means tries to be comprehensive, but I do try for geographical and thematic variety. Feel free to add events near you, large or small, in the comments.
Context
June 3-6
Auckland, NZ
Catherine Asaro, Helen Lowe, and Lynelle Howell are Guests of Honour at this year’s New Zealand National Convention. The Sir Julius Vogel Awards, plans to bring the Worldcon to New Zealand will also be made. If this convention is anything like last year’s this will be a fun filled weekend for all.
@party
June 17-19
Harvard, MA
@party is one of the very few demo parties taking place in North America. For the uninitiated, demos are audio-visual presentations that run on a computer, usually in real time. With concerts in addition to the Saturday evening presentation, expect a weekend filled with fascinating feats of animation and music.
DucKon 20
June 17-19
Schaumburg, IL
A fundraising event in support of the Golden Duck Awards, Duckon is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Guests include Tamora Pierce, Ursula Vernon, Shirley Damsgaard, and Katie Goldman
Eurocon
June 17-19
Stockholm, Sweden
Eurocon is in Sweden this year in one of the coolest venues to ever host a convention: the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). It is worth noting that the first Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award winners will be announced at the convention. The Guests of Honour are Elizabeth Bear, Ian McDonald, John-Henru Holmberg, and Jukka Halme, and lots of other really cool people will also be in attendance.
René Walling is a fan of SF, animation and comics, this has led him to co-chair Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon, be involved with fps magazine for more than a decade, write reviews of francophone short fiction for The Portal, and start Nanopress, a Canadian small press. He looks forward to living on Mars where he would benefit from having more than 24 hours in a day.
