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Thursday 16 December 2004
 
» Announcements
The Clarion SF & Fantasy Writers' Workshop will hold a midnight auction, January 28 and 29, 2005, to raise money for the 2005 workshop -- see announcement for details. Administrators seek donations of items -- signed books, prints, manuscripts, anything that may be of interest to a sf/f fan -- by January 10, 2005; contact clarion@msu.edu

» The Utah Center for the Book and CONduit, Utah's Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, call for entries for the 2004 Utah Speculative Fiction Award and the 2004 Utah Speculative Fiction Short Story Award. The competition is open published books and stories by Utah authors, or with a Utah theme or setting. The deadline for entries is January 31, 2005. For details and entry forms, see CONduit XV (2005): Speculative Fiction Award.

» The New York Academy of Sciences hosts "From Imagination to Reality: The Art of Science Fiction" through January 28, 2005 • Description by Vincent di Fate

 
Tuesday 16 November 2004
 
» Announcements
The 29th annual Jack Williamson Lectureship will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2005 at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico. The theme for the evening panel discussion is "Posthumanity Evolving." Guests include Jack Williamson, Walter Jon Williams, Gregory Benford, and Connie Willis.

» Detox at The Loading Zone presents "Shudders and Belly Laughs", and evening of satirical works by Eliot Fintushel, through December 4th at Studio 208 in Santa Rosa CA. See site for details.

 
Thursday 11 November 2004
 
» Announcement
The Odyssey Summer Writing Workshop's 2005 session will be held at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, over 6 weeks, June 13-July 22, 2005; writers-in-residence are Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem; guest lecturers are Elizabeth Hand, Allen M. Steele, P. D. Cacek, James Morrow, John Clute, and Sheila Williams

 
Sunday 10 October 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Events this week by Laurell K. Hamilton, Susanna Clarke, Eileen Gunn, Gwyneth Jones, Peter Beagle, John Ringo, and many others • New listings posted today R.A. Salvatore tour in late October; Allen Steele signings in December; Borderlands events in October; F. Brett Cox; Matt Hughes; Bud Webster

 
Friday 8 October 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Late-breaking author event listing: John Ringo signings this evening through next week in the southeast US

 
Tuesday 28 September 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Late-breaking author event listing: Philip Kerr (aka P.B. Kerr), tomorrow at Dark Carnival in Berkeley CA

 
Tuesday 7 September 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Ray Garton signs in San Francisco, next Saturday 11 Sep; Laurell K. Hamilton's tour for Incubus Dreams begins 28 Sep; plus new listings for David Brin, William Gibson, Tim Powers, Forrest J Ackerman, Neil Gaiman, Dave Duncan, Koji Suzuki, Ellen Datlow, and many others

 
Thursday 26 August 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Late-breaking event announcement: P.D. Cacek reads in Philadelphia, tomorrow 27 August at 8 p.m.

 
Thursday 19 August 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Anne McCaffrey, Tim Powers, Sean Williams, Robert J. Sawyer, Jerry Pournelle, and others appear at Borders in Hollywood this Saturday, 21 August, celebrating this year's Writers of the Future awards ceremonies • Plus, new listings for Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Dune: The Battle of Corrin tour, underway; for Neal Stephenson's The System of the World tour, in September; and for Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell tour, in September

 
Sunday 1 August 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Andrew Fox's tour for Bride of the Fat White Vampire began 31 July; K.A. Bedford's tour for Eclipse begins 17 Aug; Terry Brooks' tour for High Druid of Shannara: Tanequil begins Sept 10; Greg Keyes' tour for The Charnal Prince begins Sept 14; plus events for Anne McCaffrey, Michael Moorcock, Mark Rich, Susanna Clarke, Neal Stephenson, Terry Bisson, and others

 
Sunday 11 July 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Elizabeth Hand (next week); Frank M. Robinson, L.E. Modesitt Jr., and Michael Moorcock (August in San Francisco); and Robert J. Sawyer (in October) • Also, Gavin J. Grant, Geoffrey Goodwin, and Liisa Ladouceur have begun their Perpetual Motion Roadshow: details

 
Monday 5 July 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Clarion West readings in Seattle, by Geoff Ryman, John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly, Larissa Lai, and Charles de Lint, Tuesdays in July; plus Michaela Roessner in San Francisco, July 10th

 
Sunday 27 June 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for events tomorrow, 28 June, with Paul Levinson and Cory Doctorow; and for later events with Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Naomi Kritzer, Andy Duncan, and Bill Campbell

Future History: Convention Listings
Updated from July 2004 through 2006

 
Sunday 20 June 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for John Ringo, touring in July for Emerald Sea; Ellen Datlow and The Faery Reel contributors signing in Pennsylvania; Joe Haldeman speaking in Covington KY; Kit Reed reading in Philadelphia; plus appearances by Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Hand, Pat & Dick Lupoff, Kage Baker, Martha Well

 
Tuesday 8 June 2004
 
Forthcoming Books
Selected titles scheduled for June 2004 through March 2005, as compiled in Locus Magazine's June 2004 issue

 
Sunday 6 June 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Tamara Thorne, Eric Van Lustbader, Cory Doctorow, Sarah Micklem, and Donald Sidney-Fryer

 
Sunday 30 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Leslie What, Kim Stanley Robinson, David J. Schow, Jeff Gelb, and others

» Future History: Announcement
Fantasy artist Larry Elmore will conduct a one-week art workshop in Brandenbug KY, October 4th-8th, 2004; cost is $399 and attendance is limited to 14 students. Application deadline is July 1. For information contact ken@kenwhitman.org

» David Gerrold will conduct a writing workshop in conjunction with the Official Star Trek Las Vegas Convention in Las Vegas, July 31, 2004; cost $119, limited seating.

 
Wednesday 26 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Late notice event this Friday: Tom Purdom reads in Philadelphia

 
Sunday 23 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings added for events with Kit Reed, Marleen Barr, Jay Lake, David D. Levine, John Shirley, and Martha Wells • Link: check The Signed Page, a website that provides signed or personalized books to fans unable to attend scheduled author appearances

 
Monday 17 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for events this month with Carter Scholz, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Scott Nicholson, and Bill Campbell; and for later events with Kim Stanley Robinson, Leah Cutter, Leslie What, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Alma Alexander, Jane Lindskold, and others

 
Monday 10 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Paul Levinson appears on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" this Wednesday, 12 May, talking about his new nonfiction book Cellphone • Check local radio listings for time and station in your area

» Future History: Announcement
Strange Horizons' summer fiction workshops, designed for fiction authors who have started publishing fiction in pro-level markets, and who are interested in developing their craft, are scheduled in July in Oregon with guest editor Jay Lake and in September in New Jersey with guest editors Gavin Grant and Kelly Link • Full details

 
Sunday 9 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Kit Reed and Rebecca Maines read Monday 10 May in New York City • Terry Bisson, Michael Chabon, and Claire Light read in San Francisco Thursday 20 May in support of the Speculative Literature Foundation • Michael Marshall's UK tour begins 18 May • More new listings added for Tee Morris, Alex Garland, Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Levinson, Poppy Z. Brite, and others

 
Monday 3 May 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for John Varley, Kage Baker, Jean-Louis Trudel, Eoin Colfer, Lois McMaster Bujold, and others

Future History: Convention Listings
Updated from May 2004 through 2006

 
Sunday 25 April 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Harlan Ellison, Leslie What, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, and E.E. Knight

 
Tuesday 20 April 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
New listings for Jeanne Cavelos, Ellen Kushner, Bruce Sterling, Robert Silverberg, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bill Campbell, Miller Lau, Michael Cobley, and others

 
Thursday 15 April 2004
 
» Future History: Announcement
The Epiphany Theater Company in NYC presents a free reading of Clark Perry's "sci-fi fantasia" play The Planet on 158th Street, loosely based on the Futurians, a group of young NYC writers in the 1930s-40s including Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, Damon Knight, and others, Monday 19 April at 7 p.m. • Call (646) 638-0252 for reservations

 
Sunday 11 April 2004
 
» Future History: Announcement
The North Carolina Literary Festival 2004 will be held 15-18 April in Raleigh NC, with participants John Kessel, Orson Scott Card, Karen Joy Fowler, Andy Duncan, Kelly Link, and others

 
Thursday 8 April 2004
 
» Future History: Announcement
Black to the Future: A Black Science Fiction Festival will be held June 11-13, 2004, in Seattle, with guests Octavia Butler, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, Walter Mosley, and Nisi Shawl

Future History: Author Events
Michael Swanwick & Henry Wessells read next week in Philadelphia; Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost and others appear at a regional Nebula Weekend event also in Philadelphia; plus other new listings for R. A. Salvatore, Nisi Shawl, Jan Lars Jensen, Howard V. Hendrix, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, and others

 
Sunday 4 April 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Listings added for Joe R. Lansdale events in April; Marleen Barr and Paul Levinson reading in Brooklyn, 8 April; David Hartwell and Albert Goldbarth reading poetry in Chicago, 28 April; and David Weber's Wind Rider's Oath tour in May

 
Friday 2 April 2004
 
» Announcement
Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation, a feature-length documentary about science fiction and fandom, including conversations with Ben Bova, Robert Silverberg, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Mike Resnick, and others, will screen at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival on Sunday, 2 May • Tickets available from TicketWeb (search on event name)

 
Sunday 28 March 2004
 
 
Saturday 27 March 2004
 
» Announcements
Out of this world -- a tribute to Ray Bradbury will be held Saturday 3 April at the California ScienCenter in LA, with guests Harlan Ellison, Buzz Aldrin, William Shatner, and many others • Mention Locus Online when ordering tickets to get special rates-- $150 (half price) for dinner, $75 for cocktails and exhibits

» Astrobiology Science 2004 Conference, 28 March - 1 April at NASA's Ames Research Center, will feature a Mars Terraforming debate on 30 March with Arthur C. Clarke (via telecon), Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others • Open to the public • [via]

 
Thursday 25 March 2004
 
Future History: Author Events
Listings added for Catherine Asaro, reading in Philadelphia tomorrow, 26 March; Jeff VanderMeer and Jeffrey Ford in the UK, mid-April; Terry Bisson, Pat Murphy and others at an SLF benefit in S.F., 23 April; William Gibson, Timothy Zahn, and others at the LA Times Book Festival in LA, 25 April; China Miéville's US tour, July-August; and other events for Greg Bear, Steven Barnes, F. Paul Wilson

 
Sunday 21 March 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Dean Foster, and others at the Arizona Book Festival, 3 April; F. Paul Wilson, Douglas E. Winter and others at a Mid-Atlantic Horror Professionals benefit in Falls Church VA, 17 April; and Andrew Sean Greer, China Miéville

 
Friday 19 March 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Gregory Benford -- this Sunday, 21 March, in Tustin CA -- Gene Wolfe, Greg Bear, Kage Baker and L. Timmel Duchamp, Richard Bowes, Jennifer Stevenson, and Raymond E. Feist

 
Mon 15 Mar 2004
 
» Announcement
Odyssey 2004, the Official Arthur C. Clarke Convention, will be held May 8-9 2004 in Taunton, Somerset, England (Clarke's hometown), with a live link to Sri Lanka and guests including Stephen Baxter and David A. Kyle

 
Wed 10 Mar 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Garth Nix, Stephen Jones & Vampire contributors, and 3 dozen authors at SFWA's multi-author Nebula Weekend signing

 
Tue 9 Mar 2004
 
Forthcoming Books
Selected titles scheduled for March through December 2004, as compiled in Locus Magazine's March 2004 issue

 
Wed 3 Mar 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Bruce Sterling, Gregory Benford, Howard V. Hendrix, Ian R. MacLeod, Nalo Hopkinson, Tim Pratt, Martha Wells, and others

 
Tue 2 Mar 2004
 
» Announcement
SF musical Weird Romance [scroll down], with music by Alan Menken and book by Alan Brennert (based on Tiptree's "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" and Brennert's "Her Pilgrim Soul"), due April 2-4 in NYC

 
Wed 25 Feb 2004
 
» Author Events
Guy Gavriel Kay begins an online journal at Bright Weavings for the duration of his Canadian media tour (27 Feb - 17 Mar) for The Last Light of the Sun

 
Tue 24 Feb 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Guy Gavriel Kay, Richard Morgan, Peter F. Hamilton, Andy Duncan, Karl Kofoed, and others

 
Mon 16 Feb 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Tim Kirk, Alan M. Clark, Michael Bishop, Scott Nicholson, and others

 
Mon 9 Feb 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for William Gibson, Richard K. Morgan, Jeff VanderMeer and friends, Bruce Sterling, Terry Bisson, Carter Scholz, and many others

Convention Listings
Updated from February 2004 through 2006

 
Sun 1 Feb 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Carter Scholz, Denise Dumars & Lori Nyx

 
Thu 29 Jan 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for William Gibson, Michael Moorcock, Paul McAuley, Cory Doctorow, Howard V. Hendrix, Rick Klaw, and others, including Christopher Fulkerson's musical rendition of Ray Bradbury's "A Miracle of Rare Device" at Borderlands on 28 Feb

 
Sun 25 Jan 2004
 
Author Events
Listings added for Michael Kandel, Paul McAuley, Cory Doctorow, Jasper Fforde, Richard K. Morgan, Rudy Rucker, and others, plus new listings for Sheree R. Thomas and Dark Matter contributors

 
 
 
Author Events — Wed 21 Jan 2004
Listings added for David Sherman (this Friday, 23 Jan), Cory Doctorow (28 Jan), John Skipp, Pam Noles & Douglas Kearney

Author Events — Mon 12 Jan 2004
Listings added for John Crowley, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Robert J. Sawyer, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Timothy Zahn, and others

Author Events — Mon 5 Jan 2004
Listings added for Robert J. Sawyer, William F. Nolan, Denise Dumars, and others

Convention Listings — Mon 5 Jan 2004
Updated from January 2004 through 2006

Author Events — Sun 21 Dec 2003
Listings added for Jeff VanderMeer and contributors for the Disease Guide; Brain Keene, Robert Catalano, William P. Burch

Author Events — Tue 16 Dec 2003
Paul Levinson, Marleen S. Barr, and others read at Knitting Factory in NYC, Saturday 20 Dec

Author Events — Wed 10 Dec 2003
Robert J. Sawyer reads, speaks, and signs at Mississauga Central Library in Ontario, 10 Jan '04

 

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