Paul Cornell, Paul McAuley, Pat Cadigan: NewCon 5

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Yes, just when you thought it was safe to put away your convention callendars, we have... NEWCON 5!!

Northampton, October 9th to 10th.

Guests of Honour: Pat Cadigan, Paul Cornell, Paul McAuley

Chaired by: Ian Watson and Ian Whates.

Pat Cadigan: The Queen of Cyberpunk. Winner of two Arthur C Clarke Awards for best novel, two Locus Awards and half a World fantasy Award. Author of fifteen books and countless short stories.

Paul Cornell: The only person ever to be shortlisted for Hugo Awards in prose, comics and TV scripts! Writer of Doctor Who episodes 'Fathers Day' (Christopher Eccleston), 'Human Nature' and 'The Family of Blood' (both David Tennant). He is the creator of popular Doctor Who books character Bernice Summerfield, has written episodes of Primeval and Robin Hood, adapted Iain Banks' novel State of the Art for BBC radio, written for both Marvel and DC comics (currently writing a new Lex Luther series for the latter), and has written novels and several highly regarded short stories.

Paul McAuley: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the Sidewise Award, the John W Campbell Award and a British Fantasy Award. Author of some 18 novels, 3 collections and many short stories.

Ian Watson: Winner of two British Science Fiction Association Awards and France's Prix Apollo. Worked with Stanley Kubrick for a year, during which he wrote the screen story for AI Artificial Intelligence, subsequently bought from him and filmed by Spielberg. Author of some 250 published short stories and more than 40 books, Ian was the first person to ever write a novel in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, producing four books for GM including the classic Space Marine.

Other programme participents to include: Storm Constantine, Jaine Fenn, Ben Jeapes, Kim Lakin-Smith, Juliet E McKenna, Philip Palmer, Sarah Pinborough, Mike Shevdon, Kari Sperring, Sam Stone... and me!

Compered by the Jester of Time, who will be hanging himself and cutting people in half (not necessarily in that order) during the weekend...

Panels, readings, interviews, theatre presentations, real ale, poetry, live podcast, book launch, real ale, live music, barbecue, quizzes... and more, much more... including more real ale!

Come and join the fun!!! :)​

Full details: Welcome to NEWCON 5
 

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Sadly, the chances of me making this one are looking shaky (though, with luck, I may just squeeze in the Saturday).

However, I highly recommend Newcon to any poor unfortunate who hasn't been yet. Indeed, its a contender for my favorite con (and I like to think I've clocked up a few now)--a friendly atmosphere in a great venue (tons of natural light that makes a welcome change to your typical hotel dimness) with a cornucopia of fascinating panels.
 
Thanks for the endorsement, Jim. Have to confess we were overwhelmed with the positive feedback to NewCon 4.

Really hope you can make the Saturday this time. :)
 
I shall be there all weekend - hurrah! Northampton's only just up the road from me, so it's daft not to - and besides, it was loads of fun last time.

We should have an official rendezvous - I know Ian vaguely, but none of my Cambridge friends are going this year :(
 
Looking forward to seeing you all there! :)

Still finalising the program, as more people join or commit to coming. The latest to confirm being artist Dominic Harman (responsible for my two 'Noise' covers, Alan Campbell's Chasm City books, Eric Brown's Helix, Stephen Deas' fantasy books, Kelley Armstrong's Orbit covers and many, many others) and author Tony Ballantyne.

Can't wait.
 
Ooh, another addition to NewCon 5. I'm delighted to announce that the wonderful, gorgeous and incredibly talented Anne Sudworth -- one of the finest fantasy artists anywhere -- will be with us for the weekend and will be exhibiting at the convention.

For anyone not familiar with Anne's work: Untitled Document
 
Ian Whates said:
Ooh, another addition to NewCon 5. I'm delighted to announce that the wonderful, gorgeous and incredibly talented Anne Sudworth -- one of the finest fantasy artists anywhere -- will be with us for the weekend and will be exhibiting at the convention.

For anyone not familiar with Anne's work: Untitled Document
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That's wonderful! I hope this time to be able to get to talk to Anne. At Eastercon we kept waving and saying speak later but never did.

When I sell my first book I have promised myself one of Anne's beautiful prints (Can't afford an original)
 
I agree. Anne's a wonderful talent (and such a nice lady!). We have a couple of her prints up on the walls.

Oh, and another addition to the Newcon 5 lineup... top SF author Keith Brooke will also be joining us for the weekend. :)
 
Something worth mentioning is that late on the Saturday afternoon of Newcon 5, immediately before the live music and barbecue, there will be a book launch.

I was delighted to receive the introduction to the book, an anthology, earlier today. A jolly good intro it is too... written by a certain Northampton resident... one Alan Moore. :)
 
Two further additions to the NewCon 5 weekend: authors Deborah J. Miller (aka Miller Lau) and Chronicles' very own Stephen Palmer! :)
 
Well, its 50-50 that I'll make it--probably have to pay on the door. But will give it me best shot.

In the meantime, here's a... beautiful SF ballad about Northampton. When I heard it I thought of Newcon instantly.

YouTube - Northampton - Energy In Northampton - Linda Jardim

Its by someone called Linda Jardim--what scares me is there appears to be no hint of irony to it!
 
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