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Just 5 minutes walk from the Fishmarket is the Ibis Hotel in the Sol Central leisure complex. See here for more details. |
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NEWCON ACCOMODATION UPDATE
NEW & EVEN CLOSER HOTEL!
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Due to increasingly close relations with the management of the Fishmarket, and their existing good relations with the almost adjacent Park Inn hotel (who are happy to lend Newcon lots of useful things), we are designating the Park Inn as our main hotel, with the Ibis Hotel as back-up. However, we have a very limited number of rooms reserved at the Park Inn, so early booking is recommended.
The Park Inn (more info here) is just one minute on foot from the Fishmarket. Special rates for Newcon will be £55 per night single, £60 for 2 people in a room. This is £5, and £10, more than the Ibis, but parking is free at the well-named Park Inn and breakfast is included irrespective of how many nights you stay. Please proceed to book and pay on our Newcon site as at present, but we will allocate guests to the Park Inn preferentially. The smoking situation at the Park Inn still has to be clarified. The Park Inn is due to undergo some refurb, so by October it may have changed from its present vivid blue exterior to a demure magnolia. The Park Inn is in Silver Street. (Not to be confused with nearby Gold Street, along the length of which an RAF plane crash-landed during WW2.)
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NEWCON 4:
Program
SATURDAY 11 October
Main Area
10.30 Opening Ceremony
11.00 Panel: Does the Future of SF
Lie in Media other than Traditional
Literature?
Paul Cornell, John Jarrold, Dave
Hutchinson, Una McCormack, Lee
Harris, Steve Longworth (mod)
12.00 Panel: Science Fiction Non-
Fiction: What’s the Point?
Donna Scott, John Clute, Farah
Mendlesohn Colin Harvey, Paul
Skevington, Tom Hunter (mod)
1.00 Panel: Is ‘New Space Opera’
just ‘Old Space Opera’ in a fresh set
of clothes?
Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod, Tony
Ballantyne, Jaine Fenn, Ben Jeapes,
Ian Whates (mod).
2.00 GoH:
Storm Constantine interviewed by
Donna Scott
3.00 Panel: The Write Fantastic: the
Way Forward or a Waste of Time?
Chaz Brenchley, Juliet McKenna,
Alex Davis Deborah J. Miller, Kim
Lakin-Smith (mod)
4.00 Special Guest:
Paul Cornell
5.00 Panel: Sex Sells, But Should We
Buy?
Intro: David Howe & Sam Stone
read erotic poetry
Ken MacLeod, Storm Constantine,
Ally Bird, Sam Stone, Roberto
Quaglia, Ian Watson (mod).
6.00 The Jester of Time: a blood-
curdling performance!
6.30 Exclusive Preview: ‘The State of
the Art’ Paul Cornell’s adaptation for
BBC Radio 4 of Iain Banks’ novel; to
be aired March 2009
Iain Banks, Paul Cornell
7.00 Book Launch – Subterfuge latest
NewCon Press antho includes
announcing the winner of Orbiter
writing contest
7.30 BSFA 50th Birthday Party, with
barbeque & live music
Music by: Invocal, Cerridwen, Jonny
Webster & Friends
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Side Room
Flash Fiction Workshop.
Kim Lakin-Smith
Readings:
Storm Constantine, Ally Bird, Sam
Stone.
Illustrated Talk on Chinese Water Clocks by Kari Sperring
Readings:
Ken MacLeod, Jaine Fenn, Toby Frost.
Film Showing:
Alan Cash short SF film based on an Edmund Cooper story
Virgin Space presentation.
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Sunday 12 October
Main Area
11.00 Panel: How Closely Does
Modern SF Reflect Modern Science?
Ken MacLeod, Ian Watson, Tony
Ballantyne, Andy Sawyer,
Andy West (Mod).
12.00 Panel: Are Graphic Novels the
future of Genre Magazines?
Storm Constantine, Jamie Spracklen,
James Bacon, Terry Martin, Andy
Bigwood, Jonny Webster (mod).
1.00 Panel: Where would SF Be Had No Britons Ever Written
SF?
Eric Brown, Chris Beckett, Neil
Williamson, Kari Sperring, Farah
Mendlesohn, Ian Whates (mod).
2.00 GoH: Iain Banks & Ken MacLeod
In conversation with John Clute.
3.00 Panel: What makes a Hero a Hero?
Chaz Brenchley, Mark Robson, Phil
Nanson, Toby Frost,
Juliet McKenna (mod).
4.00 Quiz Game: Just an SF-ing Minute.
Iain Banks, Storm Constantine,
Paul Cornell, Ian Watson,
Pat Cadigan, Ian Whates (QM)
5.00 Closing Ceremony
including Award for Flash Fiction,
Prize(s) & Raffle draw.
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Kaffeeklatsch
Iain Banks
Readings:
Mark Robson, Chaz Brenchley, Kim
Lakin-Smith
The Differences in Writing for TV,
Comics, & Novels - an informal chat with Paul Cornell
Kaffeeklatsch:
with literary agent
John Jarrold |
OTHER EVENTS:
Saturday: Jester of Time to perform around Bar, including
bed of nails (lunchtime)
Sunday: Poetry readings from stage (lunchtime): Donna
Scott, Cardinal Cox, Sam Stone & Jamie Spracklen
Art Show: Including work by: Andy Bigwood, Dominic
Harmon, Vincent Chong, John Kaiine, Kevin Rooney, Emily
Brady & more
Flash Fiction Writing Competition – with a set of signed
books as 1st prize The NewCon 4 Raffle
NB: ANB: Any of the above details may be subject to
change, dependant on individuals’ circumstances.
Download programme
(MS Word/RTF 47kb) |
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| LATEST NEWS |
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Launch of official website |
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Membership Details
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Membership rates:
£40.00 weekend membership
(£35.00 for BSFA members)
£25.00 day membership.
£10.00 Supporting
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NEWCON:
Member list
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The member list is updated regularly, click here to see who is attending so far.
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DEALERS
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Dealer's tables cost £10 each for the weekend.
To reserve a Dealer's Table, please send a cheque made out to "Newcon" to our Treasurer Ian Pursey,
16 Albany Road, Northampton NN1 5LZ, indicating your name and number of tables required.
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Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece!
78 Derngate, Northampton
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Among the delights of Northampton, for fans of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the town house he designed at 78 Derngate “with stunning interiors to delight and surprise,†scarcely 10 minutes stroll from the Fishmarket.
Guided tours of 78 Derngate were a big hit with attendees at our previous Newcon3. Now it isn’t even necessary to book a guided tour in advance. If you wish, you can do so, but otherwise you can just turn up and show yourself around, any time between 10.00 am and 4.30pm (last admissions) on the Saturday or Sunday of Newcon4 (or on the Friday if you turn up early for the convention). £5.50 for adults, £4.50 concessions – see www.78derngate.org.ukfor many more details.
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Constitution: Cambridge
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Constitution is a roleplaying, science fiction and fantasy convention run by the fans responsible for Recombination, to be held at New Hall, Cambridge on 31st July-2 August 2009. See http://www.constitution-con.org.uk/ for more details.
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