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2017
2018 | 2019 | Overseas | Bids | London
- Until 1 September 2017 • Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction (exhibition), London
- Until 3 September 2017 • Robots: 500 Years of Humanoid Robots (exhibition), London
- Until ? October 2017 • Beyond Dredd & Watchmen: The Art of John Higgins, Liverpool
- 23 July 2017 • Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage (orchestra and film), London
- 27 July 2017 • Arthur C. Clarke Award presentation, London; tickets
- 27 July 2017 • The Tomorrow Club 4 (panel discussion), London
- 4-6 August 2017 • Nine Worlds Geekfest, London
- 9-13 August 2017 • Worldcon 75 (Worldcon), Helsinki, Finland
- 11-13 August 2017 • Wadfest (Discworld), Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
- 15-18 August 2017 • Edinburgh International Book Festival sf programming, Edinburgh (full festival runs 12-28 August)
- 19 August 2017 • Worcester Comic Con, Worcester
- 24-28 August 2017 • Frightfest (film), London
- 25-28 August 2017 • The Asylum (steampunk), Lincoln
- 25-27 August 2017 • Starburst Film Festival, Manchester
- 27-28 August 2017 • Stars of Time (film/comics), Weston-super-Mare
- 31 August - 3 September 2017 • LeakyCon, Dublin, Ireland
- 8-9 September 2017 • TitanCon (home), Belfast
- 9 September 2017 • International Comics Expo, Birmingham
- 9-10 September 2017 • Middle-earth Festival, Sarehole, Birmingham
- 16 September 2017 • Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies & Cultures in SF (conference), London
- 18-24 September 2017 • Thought Bubble (comics), Leeds; includes Comic Con 23-24 September
- 21-24 September 2017 • Oxonmoot (home; Tolkien Society), Oxford
- 23 September 2017 • Crossness Steampunk Convivial, London
- 23 September 2017 • Preston Comic Con, Preston
- 29 September - 1 October 2017 • Fantasycon (home), Peterborough; also Facebook
- 30 September 2017 • Super Sci-Fi Festival, Doncaster
- 5-8 October 2017 • Grimmfest 2017 (cult/horror films), Manchester
- 6-8 October 2017 • Octocon, Dublin
- 7-8 October 2017 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
- 7-8 October 2017 • SFW in the City (Sci-Fi Weekender spinoff), Sheffield
- 6-9 October 2017 • Irish Discworld Convention, Cork, Ireland
- 13-15 October 2017 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal; blog
- 20-22 October 2017 • Celluloid Screams (horror film festival), Sheffield
- 20-22 October 2017 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
- 25 October 2017 - 28 January 2019 • Tove Jansson (exhibition), London
- 27-31 October 2017 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh
- 28 October 2017 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 29 October 2017 • Out of This World, Sheffield
- 3-5 November 2017 • Armadacon 29, Plymouth
- 4-5 November 2017 • Gollancz Festival, London
- 10-12 November 2017 • Novacon 47, Nottingham
- 2 December 2017 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London
- 9 December 2017 • 2017: A Clarke Odyssey (conference), Canterbury; call for papers
2018
- 1-28 February 2018 • Women in Horror Recognition Month, global
- 2-4 February 2018 • Enharmonicon (filk; home), Marks Tey, Colchester
- 2-4 February 2018 • SF Ball (media; SFBevents home), Southampton
- 10 February 2018 • Sci-Feb (media), Grimsby
- 25 February 2018 • Digi-Con 3 (sf/comics/anime), Doncaster
- 22-25 March 2018 • Sci-Fi Weekender, Pwllheli, North Wales
- 25 March 2018 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 30 March - 2 April 2018 • Follycon (Eastercon), Harrogate
- 5-6 May 2018 • EM-Con, Nottingham
- 25-27 May 2018 • Satellite 6, Glasgow
- 19-22 July 2018 Nemo 2018 (Eurocon), Amiens, France
- 3-6 August 2018 • Discworld Convention, Warwick
- 16-20 August 2018 • Worldcon 76 (Worldcon), San José, CA, USA
- 19-21 October 2018 • Destination Star Trek, Birmingham
2019
- 22-24 February 2019 • Redemption (multimedia sf), Sheffield
- 25 March 2019 • Tolkien Reading Day, global; repeats every year
- 19-22 April 2019 • Ytterbium (Eastercon), London Heathrow
- 22-24 August 2019 • TitanCon (Eurocon), Belfast, Northern Ireland
Future Convention Bids
- 15-19 August 2019 • Dublin in 2019 (Worldcon)
- New Zealand in 2020 (Worldcon)
Boston in 2021(Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn June 2017Dallas/Fort Worthin 2021 (Worldcon) – reported here but withdrawn August 2016- Washington DC in 2021 (Worldcon)
- Chicago in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Doha, Qatar, in 2022 (Worldcon) – reported here
- France in 2023 (Worldcon)
- New Orleans in 2023 (Worldcon) – reported here
- UK in 2024 (Worldcon)
Washington DC in 2024(Worldcon) transferred to 2021 as above- Pacific Northwest, USA, in 2025 (Worldcon) – reported here
- Perth, Australia, in 2025 (Worldcon) – reported here
General/Other
- Doctor Who Exhibitions (UK)
- Eastercons (UK); more
- Eurocons (European SF Society)
- League of the Non-Aligned Convention Diary
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- MCM Comic Con (various)
- Rogue Events (various)
- Starfury (various)
Infinitely Improbable
Ansible Editions latest: David Langford's Short Shrift (ebook), Yvonne Rousseau's The Murders at Hanging Rock (ebook) and Rob Hansen's Then (hb, pb, ebook). • Algis Budrys's Collected F&SF Essays; much of Langford's backlist. • Free ebooks at the TAFF site: new additions June/July.
July 2017
• Worldcon
75 (preliminary) programme schedule
•
The
Doctor Who news you've all heard
•
British
Fantasy Awards shortlists
•
Penthouse
(Re-) Acquires Omni;
files
lawsuit against Omni Reboot
•
SFRA
Awards
•
Science
Fiction or Post Apocalypse?
June 2017
• Authors
for Grenfell Tower: An Online Auction (closes 27 June)
• James
White Award finalists;
winner
•
Locus
Awards
• Sidewise Awards
finalists
• 2017 ESFS Awards
• Eurocon 2019 in Belfast
• Satellite 6 prices
rise 1 July
• Dr Seuss lawsuit
developments
• Washington DC in 2021
Worldcon bid (replacing the DC in 2024 bid)
• Mythopoeic
Awards finalists
•
Adam
West 1928-2017;
Bat-Signal
in his honour
•
Fear
magazine closes
•
"Why
won’t novelists reckon with climate change?"
• 2019
Worldcon site selection voting begins
• 2017
Campbell Memorial Award finalists
May 2017
• British
Fanzine Bibliography now also covers 1991-2000
• Sturgeon
Award finalists
•
Nebula
Awards winners
•
Locus
Awards finalists
• Birmingham
FearFest "postponed"
•
2017
Clarke Award shortlist;
"Shadow
Jury" choices
April 2017
• 2017 FAAN Awards
winners
•
2017
Stoker Awards winners
•
Adam
Roberts reads all of H.G. Wells
• 2017
Gemmell Awards shortlists and voting
• 2017 TAFF
result; also GUFF
• Ytterbium (Eastercon
2019)
•
BSFA
Award winners
• Doc Weir Award
winners
• Philip K. Dick
Award winner
• SF²
Concatenation Summer 2017 Newscast
•
Eastercon
programme schedule
•
World
Fantasy Award: new trophy design
• Don't
mess
with
the X-Men
•
Obscure
SF author jailed for rape
•
Harry
Potter and the Awards of Olivier
• 2017
Hugo shortlist; a
note on diminished rabidity
•
Changes
at Strange Horizons
• Peter
David: "I am in Desperate Trouble"
• 2017 SFF
Critical Masterclass: how to apply
•
How
Many Times Does Braid-Tugging and Skirt-Smoothing Happen in The
Wheel of Time?
• TLDV
•
Last
Tweets of the Krell
•
Tolkien
Society Awards shortlist
March 2017
•
Edward
James: 2017 IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award
•
Prometheus
Award shortlist
•
SFPA
becomes SFPA!
•
Doctor
Who and the CIA
•
Zootopia
lawsuit
• Amazon Yanks Castalia
House’s The Corroding Empire;
a
comment from Camestros Felapton;
more at F770
•
2017
DUFF result
• 2017 GUFF voting
deadline extended
• Some
HWA Awards
• File 770
Withdraws From 2017 Hugos
• FAAn
Awards ballot [PDF]
•
The
Kitschies have a new sponsor
February
2017
•
Ursula
K. Le Guin honoured
• Rhysling
Awards longlist
• 2017 TAFF Campaign
Latest (and voting deadline extended)
•
Stoker
Awards shortlist
• Ted
White "Save My House" appeal
• Anglia Ruskin Centre for
Science Fiction and Fantasy
•
Nebula
Awards shortlist –corrected;
as
first announced;
Cat
Rambo comments
• BSFA
Awards shortlist
•
The
Clute Science Fiction Library
• 2017
Clarke Award submissions
•
Hilary
Bailey: Guardian obituary
•
Exit
Fangoria?
Another
view
•
Edward
Bryant (1945-2017)
•
Locus
Poll and Survey
January 2017
•
WSFS:
The <blank> Award for Best Young Adult Book Shortlist Survey
• 2017 DUFF Ballot
•
"SFWA
Statement on Magazines and the Monetization of Writers"
•
2001
etc. in another copyright lawsuit
• SFF.net
closing down
• SF²
Concatenation Spring 2017 Newscast
• Ansible Editions
offers a free Then sample download in a naked attempt to
influence BSFA shortlist voting and Hugo nominations
•
Borges
plagiarism case
• Peter
Weston 1943-2017;
Locus
• Hugo nominations
are open
•
BSFA
Award longlists (vote for shortlist by 31 January)
•
Axanar
lawsuit latest;
and
now it's been settled
• Chris
Priest flees Brexit-torn England
•
All
Romance
eBooks
goes
down
in
flames;
more
December 2016
•
LiveJournal
worries
•
Richard
Adams 1920-2016
•
Carrie
Fisher 1956-2016
•
More
on the Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go! lawsuit
• 2017 DUFF
nominations open
•
BSFA
Awards nominations: first-round deadline is 31 December
•
"I'm
not Sith, I’m Alt-Jedi, clarifies Darth Vader"
• Greg
Egan on that EM drive
• 2017 TAFF ballot
• 2017 GUFF ballot
• On
Jerusalem
November 2016
•
Jane
Yolen, SFWA Grand Master
•
J.G.
Ballard's house for sale
•
"Dr.
Seuss estate sues over Star Trek 'mashup' book"
• Novacon 47: rates rise
15 November!
• European
SF Society Awards 2016
• Nemo 2018
(Eurocon), Amiens, France: rates rise 7 November!
•
Susan
Cooper interview
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