That’s Guest of Honour if you’re not familiar with convention-speak; ‘GoH’ is also the sound certain SF writers make at 3am in the convention bar when informed it is their round. Kim Newman, writer, journalist, broadcaster and master of sculpted facial hair will be the Guest of Honour for P-Con IV, which is gearing up already even while memories of P-Con III are warm. Kim is well-known to genre and film fans from his novels, articles (including regular spots in Empire movie mag) and his non-fiction (I still swear by the BFI Companion to Horror he edited a few years ago and wish they would publish a new edition).
Also signed up to appear are the most excellent Juliet E McKenna who will appear with her performing pterodactyls (performing budgies are for wimps, she says) and my good mate and star editor of the Alien Online and tireless promoter of good SF, Ariel, who, rumour has it, will chair a panel about home extensions and DIY in parallel dimensions. Both Charlie Stross and Charlie Stross’ beard are also on board, with Charlie’s beard and Kim’s whiskers giving a talk on the role of facial fuzz in fantasy; P-Con IV is scheduled for the weekend of 10th-11th March 2007 at Wynn’s Hotel in the fair city of Dublin.
Mon, Apr 24, 2006
General