Ten days to Balticon!

And on the 7th day of May

... in 1931, Gene Wolfe was born.

Image from Wikipedia
original photo here

Here are seven links for the occasion:
 

John Scalzi's December 2012 blog post: Gene Wolfe Chosen as SFWA Grand Master

December 2012 Tor.com announcement -- 19 Gene Wolfe Books Now Available Again in Ebook

Gene Wolfe quotes from Goodreads.com

Gene Wolfe's entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Gene Wolfe interviewed (video) at Balticon 40 (in 2006)

Gene Wolfe at Fantastic Fiction

Chicago Literary Hall of Fame -- Honoring Gene Wolfe


(Okay, technically nine links, but two were more Balticon-related.)

Saturday scenery at Balticon

Ah, Balticon ... always a cool place to be ...

Plenty of interesting panels.

 Lots of reading material.

Tables announcing future conventions.

Everyone from everywhere gets along just fine.

Didn't make it to the presentation by a Nobel Prize winner that included copious amounts of liquid nitrogen (bummer!) ... but here's an ice machine:

Compton Crook Award 2012

Congratulations to T. C. McCarthy, winner of the 2012 Compton Crook Award for his novel Germline!

McCarthy's novel was published in August of 2011 by Orbit. The award will be presented during the Opening Ceremonies of Balticon, the annual Maryland regional Science Fiction convention.

The Compton Crook Award is presented by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society to the best first novel in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror published during the previous year. The award has been presented since 1983.

More on Balticon later this week!

A cornucopia of science fiction conventions

This weekend there will be several conventions to choose from:
 
Balticon
Baycon
Miscon
Oasis
Timegate


There's also:
Alabama Phoenix Festival
Puerto Rico ComicCon
WonderFest

Will you be attending any of these?

... and there's still time to get to Seattle

for their "First Annual Science Fiction Film Festival."

You might also want to check out more cool film items at Boston Sci-fi

And coming up Memorial Day weekend: the Balticon Film Festival!