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Update: Fantasycon 2023

Update: Due to a family bereavement, I’m sorry to announce that I will no longer be attending Fantasycon 2023. However, the details in this blog on the Shoreline of Infinity pre-orders and the BFS Journal special issue still stand. Neil Williamson has agreed to take my reading slot on Saturday at 5pm, which’ll be well worth attending instead.

Join me at Fantasycon 2023 for some brand new fiction and hopefully more! For schedule details for Fantasycon, as well as updates on Shoreline of Infinity and the British Fantasy Society Journal special issue on Fantasy & Gaming, read on.

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Speculative Spaces and Free Shoreline of Infinity 4

If you’d like a free copy of Shoreline of Infinity, or a science fiction and fantasy non-fiction reading list from me, then read on.

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Fantasycon 2019 Schedule and new Shoreline of Infinity column

Fantasycon 2019 is nearly upon us, and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone for a weekend along the river from me in Dalmuir. There’s lots of splendid things on the programme, as per usual, and you can catch me at one panel and one other event across the weekend. And regarding that, I have news…

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The Anniversary – Support Domestic Abuse Charities

Robert MacFarlane recently said, “perhaps we shouldn’t think of books as saving the world, but rather as catalyzing uncountable small unknown acts of good.” I don’t see why short stories shouldn’t do the same. So, if it’s okay, I’d like to ask a small favour.

CW: Domestic Abuse.

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Fantasycon 2018: Schedule

Not long now until Fantasycon, which this year takes place at The Queen Hotel, Chester over 19th – 21st October. The programme is online now, and here’s where you can find me across the weekend.

FRIDAY

5:30pm – Robot Companions in Film and Television
The Albert (Panel Room 2)
Stewart Hotston (m), Russell Smith, Eric Ian Steele, Dominic Dulley, Ruth EJ Booth

50 full minutes of my Kryten impression, including such highlights as smug mode, smeeeee heeeee, and Space Corps Directive 34124 (NSFW).

SATURDAY

1:00pm – Readings: Fantasy
The Disraeli (Reading Room)
Steve McHugh, Sandra Unerman, Ruth EJ Booth

Just a heads up: for fantasy, read dark fantasy. Very, very dark fantasy.

7:00pm – Writers and Computer Games
*UPDATE* The Victoria (Panel Room 1)
Allen Stroud (m), Ruth EJ Booth, Ben P Holden, Jaine Fenn, Powder

Join us for my in-depth analysis of why the recent World of Warcraft expansion has completely ruined my chances of getting my paper on Sylvanas Windrunner — which, by the way, I got a really decent mark on in class — from ever getting published. Not that I’m bitter or anything.

SUNDAY

3:00pm – The British Fantasy Awards
The Jubilee Room

Oh blimey. Well, fingers crossed, eh?

Apart from that, I’ll be floating about the convention all weekend, so please feel free to say hi. Do note that, as I have Social Anxiety Disorder, it’s a good idea to use the Frozen Rule of Chat. If I’m sat down, especially with a group of people, that’s a good time to say hello. If I look like I’m running on my way somewhere, then make like Elsa and let it go, let it go.

If you’re going, hope to see you there!