Sentences with phrase «science fiction convention»
@ 13.6 Welcome to the science fiction convention.
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I'll be attending a large, long - running science fiction convention and have a table in the dealer's room.
The Hugo Award is awarded by the current members of the World Science Fiction Convention.
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The only reason I will be in Tempe is that I am a speaker at a science fiction convention there in April.
Members of the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) vote on the Hugo Awards, and rank the nominees for each award.
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Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society — The Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society (KaCSFFS) promotes science fiction and fantasy literature, and hold KC's oldest science fiction convention, ConQuest.
She has been an active participant, lecturer, and workshop leader at a number of writing and media conferences and conventions since 2006, including WisCon (the first feminist science fiction convention), GeekGirlCon, Readercon, and others.
For example, if you are launching a science fiction book you can hold your book launch in a comic book store or better yet a science fiction convention.
The awards were presented at the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, MidAmeriCon II.
The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention — aka Worldcon — which is also responsible for administering them each...
Saturday night's Hugo Award ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention celebrated some fantastic authors and illustrators, not to mention lovers of sci - fi and fantasy everywhere.
A few years ago at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, I met Hugh Howey.
Here's a webinar version of the talk: https://youtu.be/HrhmqBDzdtU About eight years ago I went to Eastercon, my first science fiction convention.
We released Quarter Share just before the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention in the spring of 2010.
The world premiere of Lakeside, a documentary about author Jay Lake's battle with cancer, will be a feature at LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction convention, August 29 — September 2, 2013 in San Antonio TX.
Firefly stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have rejoined forces on Con Man, a new Indigogo - funded project about a struggling actor living in the science fiction convention world.
A quote from a blogger I follow that's quite relevant to the discussion of the conditions that enable abuse (in reference to the atheist and science fiction convention scenes):
Nearly twenty years after their hit TV seriers was canceled, the five stars of «Galaxy Quest» are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for their legions of die - hard...
Alan Tudyk plays Wray Nerely, a struggling actor who makes ends meet by attending science fiction conventions based on his performance in a cult SF TV series, Spectrum.
Can The Host successfully combine teen tropes with science fiction conventions?
Norwescon is one of the largest regional Science Fiction conventions in the United States.
I frequently encountered Harry Stubbs («Hal Clement») at East Coast science fiction conventions during the last decades of the 20th Century, when he commonly led panel discussions and seminars on the techniques of «world - building,» the process of speculatively devising ``... environments very different from our own.
Extensive background in coordinating weddings, banquets, and corporate meetings as well as comic book, gaming, and science fiction conventions.
In addition, I am an avid tabletop and console gamer who frequently plans and hosts gaming parties, including private in - home tournaments and special competitions during gaming and science fiction conventions.
Not exact matches
Passengers has an interesting premise that devolves into science - fiction and romance convention despite strong turns from Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt.
It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.
And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.
Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.
You know the rest — except, perhaps, that a good chunk of the story takes place at a sci - fi convention, where all the weirdos in costume collectively form a belaboured symbol of how fandom and obsession have sapped science fact and fiction of its wonder and curiosity.
With its stunning visual style, sly subversion science - fiction and horror genre conventions and one of the most terrifying and memorable monsters in screen history, «Alien» became an instant film classic from the moment it burst forth — literally — in the summer of 1979.
Snowpiercer is a product of a genre that can easily get lost in its conventions, but establishes itself as proof that big idea science fiction remains alive and well.
For example, if you write fantasy or science fiction, a convention will probably get you more attention than a craft fair.
In 2007, he co-created a convention honoring the centennial of the birth of author Robert Heinlein, attended by over 700 science fiction fans and aerospace experts, a unique fusion of the visionary with the concrete.
Norwescon is the host convention for the prestigious Philip K. Dick Award, given to a distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during the award year in the U.S.A.
Our average reader is 45 years old, college educated, has been reading science fiction since their teenage days, and spends over $ 2,000 per year on science fiction books, magazines, movies, and conventions.
Since most science fiction readers are interested in discovering what is new and exciting, conventions and clubs relating to technology may be another great way to promote your science fiction novel.
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Comic - Con International is one of the nation's largest comic book, science fiction and pop culture events, and will take place July 20th — 24th at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, CA.
Convention membership is also membership to the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), which allows voting on that year's Hugo Awards
Attracting more than 125,000 attendees annually, Comic - Con International is one of the nation's largest comic book, science fiction and pop culture events, and takes place July 9th - 12th at the San Diego Convention Center, in San Diego, CA.
As was characteristic of the team's other games, such as Metroid and Kid Icarus, the first Super Mario Land, released in 1989, seemed to adhere a little more closely to conventions of science fiction and mythology than those of Mario's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto.
He increased the size of his canvases and began to manipulate to his own ends the graphic and linguistic conventions of comic strips dealing with such genres as romance, war, and science fiction.
This interest also fuels my interest in travel, visiting science fiction and comic conventions in the United States.
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