Actually the waiting is over! Chris Garcia has posted the highly entertaining Fanzine Cover In An Hour featuring art improvised at Anticipation by Taral, Marc Schirmeister and Steve Stiles. The zine’s official title is rather longer and here is Chris’ explanation of … Continue reading
Congratulations to Anticipation, the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal, for increasing the amount of surplus funds it is passing on to future Worldcons. The first checks were delivered at Smofcon to Aussiecon 4 and Renovation, with an equal amount reserved for the next … Continue reading
Economist Paul Krugman’s appearance at last year’s Worldcon received a couple paragraphs of analysis in a lengthy profile by Larissa MacFarquhar for The New Yorker. “Last August, Krugman decided that before he and Wells departed for a bicycle tour of Scotland he … Continue reading
The Anticipation membership breakdown was distributed to the staff. It shows 3,921 people present, 4,497 total memberships. The FOLLE committee will be distilling these numbers into an official Worldcon attendance figure for the Long List. For example, the memberships for … Continue reading
By John Hertz: Some Worldcon notes while I work on my fuller report. The Fanzine Lounge by Day, hosted by Yvonne & Lloyd Penney in the Palais des congrès, was a success. Given adequate if not ample room just outside … Continue reading
Thanks to all the bloggers and photographers who are helping me get a taste of what I missed at the Worldcon. A life-size photographic reconstruction of Taral’s apartment was created for Anticipation – one of the most ambitious tributes to a … Continue reading
CTV Montreal’s two-minute news feature of Anticipation’s opening day is preoccupied with visuals of plush dragons, hand-puppet-aliens and other dealer’s room cliches. The broadcast is available on the station’s website beside an atrocious article, “Alien-loving humans invade Montreal”: Thousands of science fiction fans from … Continue reading
There will be 12 book launches, 9 of them public, at the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal. A list of times and publishers appears in the full press release following the jump.
Anticipation lists the names of program participants in a new press release that follows the jump. A prestigious addition is 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economics Professor Paul Krugman of the Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University and centenary professor … Continue reading
Weary of reading about the Hugos? Next week’s Worldcon in Montreal will present nine other sets of awards. They includethe Chesley Award, Prometheus Award, Sidewise Awards, and the Prix Boréal. The full press release appears after the jump.