Tag Archive | "Worldcon"

Blast from the past – the 1979 Hugo awards

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Cheryl Morgan posts this fragment from an old BBC documentary Time out of Mind with footage from the 1979 Hugo Awards, given out at the ’79 World Science Fiction Convention, which that year was held in Brighton. Ah, the 70s, when 70s fashions were just fashion (albeit often dreadful!) and not retro-fashion for self conscious [...]

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Charlie Stross – Paul Krugman Worldcon discussion online

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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One of my favourite (and consistently inventive) science fiction authors, Charlie Stross, was in a discussion with Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman at the weekend’s Worldcon, Anticipation in Montreal. As Cory notes on Boing Boing its a pretty good match as Charlie has often touched on possible future forms of economics in his SF (on [...]

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Hugo Awards

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Convention Reporter kept up a stream of Tweets last night (Canada time, early hours of this morning for the UK) from the weekend’s Worldcon, one of science fiction’s major global annual events, including live updates from the prestigious Hugo Awards. This year the Hugos decided to include a specific category for Best Graphic Story, the [...]

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Convention Reporter

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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Cheryl Morgan has significantly expanded on her excellent live blogging coverage of events like this year’s Bristol comics show and is now offering up a very intriguing looking new site – Convention Reporter. She’s been talking to a number of people and now has several contributors who are going to add their feeds to give [...]

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