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New to BayCon this year: applications for Artist Alley are now live!

New to BayCon! The Artist Alley is a venue for amateur and young professional artists to promote and sell their original artwork. It will border the dealer room and is adjoined to the Art Gallery. The Artist Alley is on a “first-come first-served” basis. 

Please Note: The Art Gallery (formerly the BayCon Art Show) is no longer open to general applications and is now invite only,

Interested? Fill out the application.

DEALERS ROOM: The Dealers room is now accepting applications. The deadline for dealers applications is April 30, 2024. Accepted dealers are notified within two weeks of the receipt of application. Please note that to be a dealer you must have a valid California Seller’s Permit.

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Have you HOPPED to it and pre-registered for BayCon 2024: Pure Imagination yet?? Only a few days left to score yourself a full weekend badge for $115 !! Badge price will go up to $130 beginning April 2nd! The full weekend badge is good for all four days, and gives you access to most events, panels, and activities! (This year even more: e-gaming, film room, boffers,etc.)

We also still have CHARTER memberships to BayCon's parent non-profit, the Society for the Promotion of Speculative Fiction (spSF), which are still only $150 and include a free badge for next year! These go up to $180 on November 1st! Don't wait! Purchase a CHARTER Membership today!

BADGE PRICES VIP Badges: $385 Full Weekend Pass: $115 (until April 2nd) Teen & Youth Passes: $30

Already a charter member and want to purchase a VIP Badge? Upgrade options are available! See our registration page at baycon.org/registration.

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The BayCon Writers’ Workshop is an exciting opportunity for aspiring authors to receive professional critique of their story structure, plot, character development, and style. It’s also an excellent introduction to the writing culture, both here in the Bay Area and beyond.

Submissions must be:

Speculative Fiction, including (but not limited to) science fiction, fantasy, or horror.

No more than 7500 words in length.

The first 7500 words, including within those 7500 words a brief outline or synopsis, if part of a longer work such as a novel.

Formatted using professional manuscript submissions standards. See http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html for guidelines.

Submitted in PDF or RTF format. Your word processor can almost certainly save to one or the other.

Send your manuscript to [email protected] no later than midnight, April 30, 2024.

Visit our website (https://baycon.org/writers-workshop) for more information.

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BayCon 2024 is extremely pleased to announce that Spotted Giraffe, Co-host of STRANGE NEW POD will be joining us in July! Strange New Pod is a weekly Star Trek podcast and live show. They focus on Star Trek's STRANGE NEW WORLDS series as well as the past, present, and future of Trek.

Hosted by Julian Brown, Erik Canaria, Michael "Hawk" Hough, Spotted Giraffe, and Emcee Frodis the crew has a ton of fun each week with episode reviews of all new Star Trek best of species series, and so much more. Their main show is also a Trekkies dream, as they cover everything from the Trek films, to deep dives of long-forgotten episodes.

Spotted Giraffe is a die-hard TOS appreciator, inspired communication officer on a lifelong globe-trotting mission, occasional trivia and happy hour organizer, official lizard bébé, "snack" aficionado, and first Collective member to get married on board of the Enterprise. Would rather be on Romulas. Giraffe is the CAPTAIN NOW!

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Catch me at San Francisco Public Library on Mar 13, discussing my new novel "The Bezzle" with Robin Sloan!

At long last, the San Francisco stop of the book tour for my new novel The Bezzle has been finalized: I'll be at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday, March 13th, in conversation with Robin Sloan!

The event starts at 6PM with Cooper Quintin from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talking about the real horrors of the prison-tech industry, which I fictionalize in The Bezzle.

Attentive readers will know that this event was finalized very late in the day, and it's going to need a little help, given the short timeline. Please consider coming - and be sure to tell your Bay Area friends about the gig!

Wednesday, 3/13/2024

6:00 - 7:30 Koret Auditorium Main Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102

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Dune Part Two's cast as described by Josh Brolin (Feb 19, 2024)

joshbrolin: Dune 2 releas is less than TWO WEEKS!!! Robot Lady and Wonka fall in love. Then Elvis tries to fuck it all up while his bad dad floats in a pool of pond scum. The WWE dude from Gardians gets super pissed while Midsomer hottie puts the eyes on Wonka Obi Wan just after his Mom gets caught taking LSD in a sandy bathroom. Chigurh still doesn't like the guy from The Goonies. I mean who doesn't want to see all that on IMAX??? The pandemic as we knew it is over. Strikes have come and gone. Fuck it. It's time to commune again and experience that amazing feeling of when the lights go down, you have your hand deep in your Popcorn worm, and Dune 2 consumes you.

HAVE FUN.

JB

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BayCon 2024 is looking for Women/Non-Binary professionals in STEM for our STEM track in July! We're looking forward to discussions featuring amazing scientists, astronomers, and other science professionals all weekend long. If you'd like to be considered for programming, visit our programming page and submit a panel request, or join our mailing list!

Stay tuned for announcements of special guest speakers and women/non-binary/LGBTQ+ STEM professionals appearing at BayCon.

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Saddened to hear of the passing of beloved and acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin

#science fiction #ursula le guin #ursula k. le guin #earthsea #fantasy author #RIP

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The last porg. 

#Star wars #Porgs

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“Peter Beagle’s work has been the gateway for multitudes of fantasy readers, but also writers as well, including myself. His work shines a light on the human heart and its beauties even when that heart is flawed and wanting, showing how that beauty arises from such imperfect conditions. Beagle unquestionably belongs among the greats, and I count it a privilege to invite him to be the next SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.​“  -SFWA President, Cat Rambo

#Peter S Beagle #SFWA #Grand Master #The Last Unicorn #The Innkeeper's Song #A Fine and Private Place #fantasy author #Baycon 2018

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R.I.P. George Romero (1940-2017)

#George A Romero #RIP

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Daniele Serra

#steampunk #art

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Happy Father’s Day (2017) Yes, green dad was necessary.

#Dragonball Z #anime

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"BayCon is excited to announce legendary fantasy author Tamora Pierce as our Writer Guest of Honor for 2018! Tamora Pierce is known widely for her works of fantasy fiction that depict young heroines. In 2013, she received the Margaret A. Edwards award from the American Library Association for her Song of the Lioness and Protector of the Small quartets. She also won the 2005 Skylark Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction. Pierce’s short stories and other works have also been featured in numerous anthologies, comics and essay collections. Tamora’s next book, Tortall: A Spy’s Guide, is due out in October 2017. Born in Pennsylvania, Tamora spent much of her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. She now lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband Tim Liebe, and four cats www.tamora-pierce.net

#Tamora Pierce #baycon2018 #fantasy author #fantasy writer #convention announcement #baycon #tamorapierceedit

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Peter Beagle and Friends Jam Session! Much fun was had at this filk event

#filk #Peter beagle #Peter S Beagle #fandom #jam session #music #musicedit

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Bradford Lyau has been a life-long reader of science fiction, part of fandom for over forty years, and a panelist for over twenty-five years.  He is a historian by training (BA, UC-Berkeley; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) and once taught at several universities in California and Europe.  He presently works for a start-up company and is a political activist/consultant.  One of his recent articles analyzed Cixin Liu’s recently translated novels, his first attempt to analyze science fiction from a non-Western culture. His book analyzing French science fiction, The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction:  Stepchildren of Voltaire, received very positive reviews from leading academic SF journals and is listed as a reference for further reading in the ‘France’ entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Presently he is editing an anthology about SF from non-English language countries; a British university press has shown positive interest.

#Bradford Lyau #SFF #discourse #sci fi & fantasy #scifi #fandom #BayCon #BayCon 2017 #French scifi #editor #guest spotlight