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Omiya Sonic City
Saturday, April 10 at 9:00am
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Charles Stross Ego corner
Source: www.newscientist.com
World-building is tricky at short-story length – but Stross squeezes some fascinating worlds into this collection
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Glasshouse won the Kurd Laßwitz Pries, a German award similar to the Nebulas, in the Best Foreign Novel category. This is the presentation and my acceptance at Penta-Con, Dresden, 12th September 2009. In German, subtitled version to follow.
Charles Stross Key staff members from Nippon 2007 have re-united to "bring the WorldCon to Japan" once again, and one of their key activities is organizing HAL-CON, a bi-lingual Japanese-English convention in Japan. The English-speaking GoH will be Charles Stross.
A new Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention launching in spring of 2010!
Time:9:00AM Saturday, April 10th
Location:Omiya Sonic City
Charles Stross I'm very happy to announce another engagement for 2010: I'm due to be the English-language guest of honour at HAL-Con in Tokyo, Japan, from April 10th to 11th, 2010. HAL-Con is a bilingual English/Japanese SF convention run by the team of SF fans who are hoping to host the next Japanese world science fiction convention in 2017.
Source: www.hal-con.net
Key staff member from Nippon 2007 have re-united to "bring the WorldCon to Japan" once again, and one of our is key activities is organizing HAL-CON, a WorldCon-style convention in Japan.
Charles Stross I'm pleased to announce that I will be a Guest of Honour at next year's Readercon, along with Nalo Hopkinson.
Source: www.readercon.org
Many of us look to speculative fiction to show us worlds, cultures, and minds different from the formulaic; the writing of Nalo Hopkinson does this superbly well.
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Early next month I'm going to be in Montreal for Anticipation, the 67th world science fiction convention. Here's my more-or-less final schedule.
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Welcome to Tor.com, a site for news and discussion of science fiction, fantasy, and all the things that interest SF and fantasy readers.
Source: scifiwire.com
Interview: Cthulhu helps Charles Stross cover the Cold War, by Nick Gevers, for SCI FI Wire,, the Syfy news service.
Source: www.orbitbooks.net
'Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.' — Gardner Dozois Read an extract.
Charles Stross
A small, informal gathering, no more than a dozen people, where fans, admirers, budding writers and directors, or anyone else for that matter, get to spend an hour or so chatting with like minded others in the company of someone who can give them really informed insight into the work they do.
SCI-FI LONDON are happy to ...make these small gatherings FREE OF CHARGE to anyone who attends but the catch is that, because numbers are very limited, they are first-come, first-served. You should act fast if you want the chance to attend filling in <a href="http://www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/20
SCI-FI LONDON are happy to ...make these small gatherings FREE OF CHARGE to anyone who attends but the catch is that, because numbers are very limited, they are first-come, first-served. You should act fast if you want the chance to attend filling in <a href="http://www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/20
Join me for a coffee and a chat
Time:12:00PM Sunday, May 3rd
Location:Apollo cinema
Charles Stross
Charles Stross will be signing Merchant Princes Book Five: The Revolution Business at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Friday 1st May from 1 - 2pm.
Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war, their army is bottled up inside a besieged fortress in two pa...rallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go trans dimensional.
If you can't make it, signed copies are available if you pre-order. Check the <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.com/Signings.html">Forbidden Planet web site</a> for details.Read More
Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war, their army is bottled up inside a besieged fortress in two pa...rallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the Clan, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go trans dimensional.
If you can't make it, signed copies are available if you pre-order. Check the <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.com/Signings.html">Forbidden Planet web site</a> for details.Read More
Time:1:00PM Friday, May 1st
Location:Forbidden Planet London Megastore
Charles Stross
With the rise of the database state and firms profiting from user-profiling, it’s vital to resist surveillance and ensure the integrity of your digital personality. From technologies like PGP and Tor to the arguments that will convince people - friends and family as well as media and politicians - to watch out for thei...r digital rights, this event is your anti-surveillance 101.
Cory Doctorow - science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist - and Charlie Stross - science fiction writer and former programmer and pharmacist - will share how and why to control your data. The event will be moderated by Ian Brown - academic, activist and Blogzilla.
The entry price is either joining Open Rights Group - by handing door staff a <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/uploads/o
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Cory Doctorow - science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist - and Charlie Stross - science fiction writer and former programmer and pharmacist - will share how and why to control your data. The event will be moderated by Ian Brown - academic, activist and Blogzilla.
The entry price is either joining Open Rights Group - by handing door staff a <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/uploads/o
<a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/2
Time:6:30PM Friday, May 1st
Location:Crypt on the Green, St James Church, Clerkenwell
Charles Stross What I did at the weekend: http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=4342
I'm going to be on the road for much of this week and the following weekend. However, if you're in the Republic of Ireland there's going to be a group author signing event at Chapters Bookshop on Parnell Street from 5:00pm to 6:30pm this Friday...
