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Party Goers! Celebrate The Expanse written by our Guest of Honor and Toastmaster, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck at Ceres Station’s most popular hangout!! All three nights of the convention weekend on the party floor! www.jamessacorey.com

#theexpanseedit #expanseedit #The Expanse #James S A Corey #Daniel Abraham #Ty Franck #Leviathan Wakes #BayCon #BayCon 2017 #party #party announcement #announcement #convention party #scifiedit #scifi #scifi writing #scifi authors #scifi writers

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Support Paine X MacTane for the Expanse Belter Bar at Worldcon 76!

Background and Story

We are Maeve Athanasiadis and Dionys "Dio" Gallagher, a pair of rock-hoppers from

the Belt

. Born to a life of hardship, we were never very good at mining. Or engineering, really - when our ship broke down, it broke hard, and the towing fees to

Tycho Station

nearly wiped us out. We couldn't afford to repair our ship, the Black Moon, or

Mung Belék

, so we decided to follow our secret passion and converted it into a bar. Now we're parked at Dock 73Y, slinging drinks out of our cargo hold.

It turns out we're way better at bartending than we ever were at mining, and we love it. Our creative drinks, true Belter hospitality, and novel (if cramped) location have earned us the admiration of dockworkers, engineers, and visiting customers alike. As one of the hottest

bars

on Tycho, we're expanding, but we need your help to keep things running and the drinks flowing.

What We're Doing

This will be a suite party at WorldCon 76 in San Jose this August, themed around the Belter culture from the award-winning book and TV series

The Expanse.

The party will run on August 17th and 18th (Friday and Saturday nights). This is an expanded and improved version of the Belter Bar that some of us ran at BayCon 2017, when Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the authors of

The Expanse

were guests of honor at the con, and spent quite a while attending our bar, enjoying the decor and drinks, and generally having a good time.

When you walk in, you'll be entering the most immersive

Expanse

experience we can create, with great drinks made on the spot as well as Belter language and culture. We invite everyone - Belters, Martians, Earthers, and those who haven't chosen a faction - to join us in space for an evening!

Donations will go toward:

Supplies of alcohol, mixers, and food;

Decorations that provide an immersive, atmospheric experience ("Those look like the same string lights we had on our set," observed Ty Franck, co-author of The Expanse, at the last party)

Safety measures and equipment for the hotel suite

Transporting all this to and from the site

All our staff will be donating their time and energy.

Who We Are and Our Experience

In real life, we're Hanne Paine and Kagan "Kai" MacTane, who work together as

Paine × MacTane

. Hanne is an Expanse superfan who has been a focal point for NYC Expanse fan meetups, was instrumental in the

Save the Expanse

effort, organized the epic 200-person Season 3 Finale party this year, and has taught an immersive

Lang Belta

class at sci-fi cons in from Baltimore to Rome, Montréal, and Worldcon 75 in Helsinki. Kai hosts Lang Belta meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area, created the

Lang Belta phrasebook on Memrise

, and has taught a Lang Belta class at last year's BayCon, as well as being a co-host of that con's Belter Bar.

Together, we've merged our two courses and taught at this year's BayCon, co-moderate the

/r/LangBelta

community on Reddit , and we're best known as the duo behind the

#ExpanseCocktails

series of recipes honoring various characters in the series. Between our cocktail knowledge, our party hosting experience, and our deep love and knowledge of Belter culture, we're uniquely suited to make this party a success.

Risks & Challenges

These are our risks and challenges.

If we don't raise enough money, we won't be able to make this event as good as it should be. We have great plans for set dressing and for food and drinks, and we'd hate to turn away thirsty people.

Other Ways You Can Help

If you can't help us out, please spread the word to other Screaming Firehawks attending Worldcon and around the world!

#Worldcon 76 #The Expanse #screamingfirehawks #screaming firehawks #the expanse rp #The Expanse Roleplay #Forum Roleplay #sci fi roleplay #Belter Bar #Belters

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Oh, and, that reminds me:  Come to BayCon this Memorial Day weekend!  The authors of The Expanse will be there, and it’s the kind of environment where you can actually interact with the guests!  Dooo Eeeeet.

BayCon 2017 - Check the Programming tab and twitter for news about guests!

And, yeah, it’s in direct competition with the monster-huge cosplay/anime convention, Fanime.  That’s where my kid goes.  And his dad goes to the gaming con.  It’s a busy weekend.

But BayCon is super-welcoming to cosplay, too, and it’s much less insane, so more repectful appreciation.

#convention #baycon #The Expanse

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Silicon Valley Life

Silicon Valley is in the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Silicon Valley is located in part of the U.S. state of California known as Northern California. Many of the world’s largest high-tech corporations run through the Valley’s past and present. Silicon Valley is a community which is known for its beauty, diverse culture, and of course its people to the US. The City of Silicon Valley is with a long list of popular features for live including (NASA Ames Exploration Center, Arizona Cactus Garden, Stanford University, Ballet San Jose, Avaya Stadium, BayCon, Eastridge Center, Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad). Sunny Valley real estate market is always considered to be the best real estate markets in the United States. January 11, 2015 marks the 44th day to remember of the first known range of vision in capture of the love “Silicon Valley.” There are multiple opinions on at which point the former, bucolic christmas tree farm region at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, better known before as the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” gained its special new moniker. Observers from manufacturing bloggers to the New York Times credit person who writes the check Ralph Vaerst, founder of Ion Equipment Corp. They claim he indicated the cast to Electronic News reporter Don Hoefler, who by the time mentioned titled a column on local silicon computer-chip companies “Silicon Valley USA.” Published on January 11, 1971, the cast stuck. The name Silicon Valley was popularized by newspaperman Don Hoefler in 1971. Don was a journalist for Electronic News (EN), a weekly tabloid that covered the electronics industry. EN landed on the desks of electronics manufacturing executives and managers on Monday mornings. These household did not fly their field week lately reading EN. They infamous to visualize what was being said approximately the people, the products, and the companies in the industry. EN was the Bible. If a specific didn’t fall in to place in EN, it didn’t happen. Even with Silicon Valley billionaires’ impressive track record of invention, apparently they’ve made a decision to throw in the towel upon advanced schooling. Annually, several offer large numbers in order to old-line U . s . universites and colleges that will, together, graduate student a similar number of technical engineers once we do twenty-five years back.

from JournalsLINE http://journalsline.com/2017/06/18/silicon-valley-life/ from Journals LINE https://journalsline.tumblr.com/post/161966006410

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Jon Del Arroz Blames Not Getting Invited to BayCon 2017 on Politics, Despite Being Invited for 2018

#BayCon #Con Scene #Conventions #Jon Del Arroz

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT:  Vanessa MacLaren-Wray is an engineer, a writer, a science fan, a school science project designer, a photographer, and a robotics nut.  She's been a fantasy and SF reader since before the internet was invented. No, yes, really.  She loves rocket launches and NASA Socials, where anyone can get access like the mainstream media.   As a writer, she's had poetry published (and paid for!), and thanks to joining a writer's group now has an SF novella in final editing and a more-ambitious fantasy YA novel in the works.  Lately, she's been depressed by the upsurge in Fake Science and Alternative Factitis, but working for the Women's March helped, and she hopes for another boost from the March for Science. Doc MacWray hangs out online way too much, at cometarytales.com, cometarytales (flickr), PixelGravityAstronomy (Facebook), and PixelGravity or CometaryTales on Twitter, because everyone needs two Twitter accounts, right?

#Vanessa McLaren-Wray #women in science #women in stem #women engineers #science fan #women's march #BayCon #BayCon 2017 #guest spotlight #science #writer #women writers

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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

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Guest Spotlight: Wanda Kurtcu says her 15 minutes of fame comes from the Star Trek Next Gen episode: 'A Matter of Honor'. She had the pleasure of writing this script and having it produced by Paramount Pictures. She works for San Lorenzo Unified School District as an educator. She is married, the mom of four young adults and owned by three cats. She will hopefully be done with her dissertation in Educational Leadership, Social Justice, by the time people read this and will be Dr. Wanda. She performs with Wadaiko Newark, a Taiko (Japanese drumming) group and enjoys this hobby very much. Science fiction and fantasy are her genres of choice and considers herself a SF/F snob. Please say hello when you see her around the Con!

#Wanda Kurtcu #star trek tng #blackexcellence #blackgirlmagic #black girl magic #women in scifi #women writers #startrekedit #star trek the next generation #educator #East Bay #SFF fan #SFF fandom #Wadaiko Newark #BayCOn #BayCon 2017 #Guest Spotlight

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT:  Carrie Sessarego is the resident 'geek reviewer' for Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, where she wrangles science fiction, fantasy romance, comics, movies, and non-fiction. Carrie’s first book, Pride, Prejudice, and Popcorn: TV and Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, was released in 2014. Her work has been published in SEARCH Magazine, Interfictions Online, After the Avengers, The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 9, Genius Loci, and Speculative Fiction 2013: The Year’s Best Online Reviews, Essays And Commentary. When not reading and writing, you can find Carrie speaking at conventions, volunteering for the Sacramento Public Library, and getting into trouble with her mad scientist husband, Potterhead daughter, mysterious cats, and neurotic dog.

#Carrie Sessarego #Jane Austen meta #author #Jane Austen commentary #geek reviewer #female writers #BayCon #BayCOn 2017 #Guest Spotlight #writer #reviewer

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ATTENTION DISNEY FANATICS!!! Four Park Hoppers to Disneyland and  California Adventure will be up for bidding at the BayCon Charity Auctions  benefiting Variety, the Children’s Charity of Northern California.

www.disneyland.com

#Disneyland #CAAdventure #BayCon Charity Auction #charity auction #BayCOn 2017 #disneyedit #theme park #tickets #park tickets #park hopper

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT: C. Sanford Lowe is a science fiction writer who co-authored the novel, The Black Hole Project,  with G. David Nordley. Formerly a newspaper reporter in Boston, a deputy sheriff in Arizona, and an airline pilot in New Mexico, Lowe currently works in Technology Training at Stanford University. She is a winner of the best short story for the New England Science Fiction Association. When not writing, she collaborates on experimental music with her husband, and tutors students studying English as a second language.

#C Sanford Lowe #author #SFF author #scifi writing #Guest Spotlight #scifi #female author #female writers #BayCon #BayCon 2017

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT:  John has been reading SF/F since he could read. His first series was the Tom Swift, moving on to Andre Norton, then the golden age four (Issac, Robert, Arthur and Ray) and expanding from there during the explosion of SF in the 70s and 80s. TV shows and Movies galore. D&D and other gaming. He has been working on and with computers for 30 years. He has been online & active on BBSs, FIDO echos, Usenet, GEnie, Internet, Worldwide Web and Social networks, for nearly as long.  In 2013 he and his wife Chris were honored to BayCon's Fan Guests of Honor.

#John O'Halloran #Baycon #Baycon 2017 #guest spotlight #sff fandom #techie #fanboy #fan #sff fan #scifi fan #longtime fan

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GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Gregg Castro [t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsien Ohlone], has been involved in the preservation of his Native cultural heritage for over two decades. He represents his late Mother’s family heritage interests in their rumsien Ohlone Monterey Bay area homeland. On his late Father’s side, he was a founding member of the contemporary Salinan Nation Tribal Council (serving as Tribal Chair for a number of years) and their non-profit organization, now known as Salinan T’rowt’raahl. He is currently an advisor with the California Indian Storytelling Association (CISA). Gregg is a long time member of the Society for California Archaeology (SCA), a state organization of archaeologists, cultural resource professionals and others that work to preserve the history of California. He serves on SCA’s Native American Programs Committee (NAPC) as Co-Chair. Gregg was formerly a Central California native representative on the Archaeology Resources Committee (ARC) of the State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC). This committee is an advisory body to the SHRC on issues of cultural resources management. Gregg is a writer and activist within the California indigenous community, on issues regarding cultural preservation, protection, education and traditional practices.

#Gregg Castro #BayCon #BayCon 2017 #indigenous activism #Native American Programs Committee #Society for California Archaeology #Guest Spotlight

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Guest Spotlight: Derek McCaw is a local writer, actor, and teacher. He has run Fanboy Planet for 17 years, worked with ComedySportz San Jose for more years than that, and written comics for Arcana, Catastrophic Comics, and Monsterverse. He co-authored a book on the making of Flesh Gordon coming in December, 2017. fanboyplanet.com instagram.com/fanboyplanet

#Derek McCaw #fanboy #Fanboy Planet #podcaster #teacher #actor #guest spotlight #BayCon #BayCon 2017 #ComedySportz #Arcana #Catastrophic Comics #Monsterverse #Flesh Gordon #author