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FantasyCon 2010

BookCrossing at FantasyCon

BookCrossing-Logo-138If you are signed up with BookCrossing, FantasyCon is a great opportunity to release a few books "into the wild" (and clear a bit of bookshelf space to make room for everything you'll be taking home from Nottingham...) and find them a new home with someone who'll love them just as much as you have. Just bring a couple along and drop them off when you get to Fantasycon.

Please do take the time to register any books you're thinking of bringing – it doesn't take long. Each book will be assigned a BookCrossing code (a BCID) which you then write (or put on a post-it, depending on how you feel about writing in books!) inside. This means you can track the book's travels on the BookCrossing site – and some have been known to go all around the world.

If you're not signed up, and you don't fancy creating your own account, we have a BFS account which members can use – just ask Louise Morgan (LouM on the BFS forums) and she'll send you the login details.

Likewise, if you pick up any books that have been registered and have a BCID inside, please go to the site and mark them as found – it only takes a minute or two, and again, you can use the BFS account if you don't have one of your own.

If everyone coming to Fantasycon registers and brings just one or two books, this could be rather brilliant. I can see it becoming a real highlight of the event every year...

 

Peter F. Hamilton at FantasyCon 2010

Peter will be attending FantasyCon 2010 on SUNDAY September 19 Britannia Hotel,
Nottingham visit www.fantasycon.org.uk for further details.

Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone and the In Dreams and New Worlds anthologies, and several small press publications. His first novel was Mindstar Rising, published in 1993, and he has been steadily productive since then.

Peter lives near Rutland Water with his wife Kate, daughter Sophie and son Felix. Visit www.peterfhamilton.co.uk to find out more about Peter's books.

 

FantasyCon 2010: Guest of Honour... Bryan Talbot

FantasyCon 2010 is delighted to annnounce the THIRD Guest of Honour will be Bryan Talbot. Bryan Talbot has produced underground and alternative comics, notably Brainstorm!, science fiction and superhero stories such as Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, Teknophage, The Nazz and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight.

He’s worked on DC Vertigo titles including Hellblazer, Sandman, The Dreaming and Fables and has written and drawn the graphic novels for which he is best known: The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland and Grandville.

In July 2009 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Arts by Sunderland University.

His website is: www.bryan-talbot.com

Bryan joins previously announced guests Garry Kilworth and Lisa Tuttle alongside MC James Barclay at FantasyCon 2010.

 

GUEST OF HONOUR: GARRY KILWORTH

FantasyCon 2010 is proud to announce our second GOH...

Garry Kilworth has been writing short-stories and novels for nearly forty years. A Yorkshireman who went walkabout from the age of two, he loves to travel the world with a pack on his back and his wife Annette by his side.

Since the publication of his first novel  'In Solitary' he has written SF, fantasy, children's fiction and, as Garry Douglas, a series of historical war novels.

He is the recipient of both a British Science Fiction Award and World Fantasy Award, both for the same story, 'The Ragthorn' written in collaboration with a Rob Holdstock. He has also been twice shortlisted for the children's Carnegie Medal award and won the Lancashire 'Children's Book of the Year Award' (which is judged by kids so pleases him immensely).

Garry joins GOH Lisa Tuttle and MC James Barclay at FantasyCon 2010...

 

FantasyCon 2010: Guest of Honour... Lisa Tuttle

Following the news that James Barclay has agreed to be this years MC at FantasyCon 2010, we are delighted to annnounce our first GOH... Lisa Tuttle.

Lisa Tuttle won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, and went on to write seven novels and numerous short stories (four collections published so far)  as well as fiction for young adults and children and several non-fiction books, including Encyclopedia of Feminism.

Among her best-known books are Windhaven, written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin, Lost Futures, short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, A Nest of Nightmares (described by Stephen Jones as “without doubt one of the finest collections of horror stories to appear for many years”), The Pillow Friend, and The Mysteries.

Her most recent novel was a romantic fantasy set in a Scottish village overwhelmed by creatures and events from ancient legend, The Silver Bough. Her complete short stories (almost 100) are forthcoming in three volumes from Ash Tree Press.

 

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