The Balticon 43 Con-Chair, Misha Field, is proud to announce that British author Charles Stross has been confirmed as GOH for the 2009 Balticon. Charles Stross’s writing has earned him the title of Hugo award winner, 2006 and 2007 Locus Award winner, 2007 Prometheus Award winner, and 2008 winner of the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award also [...]
Due to a problem with iTunes I have to put the link to Tee Morris’s book in a separate post. Please see the previous post for all the relevant info.
Authors Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine have released their latest novels as free PDFs.
Tee Morris is the author of the novels Morevi: The Chronicles of Raif and Askana and The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction works Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices [...]
This episode is awesome. We talked with Matthew Wayne Selznick (WMS) at Balticon 41, back in May 2007, and we talk to him again in July 2008 to update the interview and discuss his Sovereign Summer Sunday, July 13, 2008. In fact, it’s an all MWS Balticon Podcast episode with a promo and music by [...]
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally presenting our interview with Balticon 41 Guests of Honor Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. They’re latest collaboration is Inferno. Mark J. Gross, author of The Sci-Fi Scene column in Autograph Collector, shares the interviewing duties.
PROMO: Stranger Things
PROMO: Pieces Podcast
MUSIC: To Earth for the Music by Bottomland
Call [...]
While we’re busy sifting through all the wonderful interviews, panels, and events that we captured at Balticon 42, we provide a little something to get your heart pumping and your blood racing. For the first time anywhere, Dave Williams reads from his debut novel Mirrored Heavens. Mirrored Heavens, from Bantam Spectra, is available on the [...]
Convention Chairman Greg Wright and I talk about what you’ll be experiencing at Balticon 42.
Guests of Honor:
Author Connie Willis
Artist John Jude Palencar
Filkers Urban Tapestry
The Compton Crook Award
Special Events
Opening Ceremonies
Concerts: Urban Tapestry, George Hrab
Dramatic Presentation
Stranger Things
Concerts outside the bar on the Hrab Stage
Mur Lafferty is a creative juggernaut. She has stormed the gates of the Internet with a relentless stream of awesome fiction and more. Her credits include:
I Should Be Writing - A podcast by a wanna-be writer for wanna-be writers
Geek Fu Morning Show (formerly Geek Fu Action Grip) - A fun podcast she co-hosts with Jason [...]
Jared Axelrod is all things to all people, and he does a daily podcast. He makes things with his own hands, creates fiction, defends honor ANNNNNNDDDDD justice. He never gets mad nor will he ever start a fight. You should listen to his daily podcast, The Voice of Free Planet X and his weekly podcast, [...]
Join the editors, contributors, and artists of Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad as they celebrate the release of the sequel to the bestselling Bad Ass Faeries. Enjoy fun, food, and bad-add faeries.
The most Bad-Ass Faerie to come in costume gets a special prize!
Launch Party and Jacket Raffle
Balticon 42
Sunday May, 25 2008
The Garden Room
7:30 pm [...]
We did it before and we are doing it again.
Scott Sigler’s new print version of Infected gets released on April 1st, 2008. Over the next few days, his publisher has allowed him to give away copies of the PDF version of the book for free.
We are helping him do just that.
For more information on [...]
Filk Guests of Honor Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff discuss their journey through the world of music, music technology, the joy of filk, and play some of their songs.
Maya’s books on Amazon.com
The Bohnhoff’s music available at CD Baby
PROMO: Geek Radio Daily Podcast
PROMO: ReaderCon
PROMO: The Commandline Podcast
PROMO: Wasteland: A Podiobook by Mur Lafferty
This week we present an interview with Balticon 41 Art GoH, Joe Bergeron. Joe is a renaissance man. He is mostly self taught and excels in such diverse areas as art, music, astronomy, writing, and producing DVDs. You’ll be amazed at everything he does, not just for the breath of skills, but at how well [...]
Part 2 - Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.
www.michaelshermer.com Those of you familiar with [...]
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