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London Comic Con special: acting legend John Noble interviewed.
More action from the London Comic Con (@MCMComicCon) . . . here we have the legendary actor John Noble, famous for Lord of the…
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May 2015
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London Comic Con special: Jessica Nigri, cosplay goddess.
Comic Con (@MCMComicCon) has most certainly kicked off with a bang and we have this clip of famous Cosplayer Jessica Nigri, talking about…
March 2015
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Avatar comes to Walt Disney World.
Since Disney first broke ground at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, they’ve been looking forward to welcoming guests into Pandora, the mythical land based on the science…
January 2015
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Steam Garden 8, the Tokyo Steampunk Festival.
February 7th 2015 sees Steam Garden 8, the Tokyo Steampunk Festival, arrive at Tokyo’s Laforet Museum Harajuku. You want to see how they do steampunk…
July 2014
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The Gollancz Festival (13th August 2014).
Gollancz, the science-fiction and fantasy imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, are delighted to share the full programme of author events at Waterstones…
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Deborah Harkness – The Book Of Life Pre-Launch Party: an article by Sarah Bruch.
On Friday 4th July, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the pre-launch party for the last book in Deborah Harkness’…
June 2014
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It’s a great big scifi and fantasy circus at Piccadilly!
Gollancz and Waterstones London Piccadilly are hosting a genre fiction festival with participation from Patrick Rothfuss, Stephen Hunt, Joanne M. Harris, Joe Hill…
November 2013
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World FantasyCon 2013 Brighton UK 31 October–03 November 2013 (convention report).
By the pricking of my thumb… The roving carnival of creativity that is the World Fantasy Convention rolled into Brighton and set up…
May 2013
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Geekfest 2013 gets geeking.
Described as a the mutant hybrid of a science fiction convention crossed with a TED talks conference, Nine Worlds Geekfest will bring together…
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Is Birmingham really the Shire, Master Frodo? Free Middle-earth Weekend is a-coming!
Good news for Brits, and Brummie Brits in particular, the Middle-earth Weekend is coming you way, due to be held at Sarehole Mill…
April 2013
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Ad Astra 2013 – video con report.
I’ll be doing a con report of my time as Guest of Honour at the 2013 Ad Astra convention – Canada’s main SFF…
March 2013
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Nineworlds Geekfest… London’s answer to Comic-Con thrashes Kickstarter target.
Nineworlds Geekfest has, at the time of writing, 36 hours to go until the finish of their Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for…