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Clickety Click #6 Dysprosium, Eastercon 2015 Issue 6: Sunday evening Masquerade Ball Pasgon Make the Puppies Sadder Could people who are interested Pasgon has been seated as the Let’s get together at 19.00 this in parading their costumes at the 2017 Eastercon. It will be held in evening in the Real Ale bar to masquerade ball be available at Cardiff, and the GoHs are Jo discuss inclusion in fandom. Discovery at 18.45 with a short Walton, Lindon Lyn Evans and sentence of how they’d like to be David “DC” Carlisle. You can sign Worldcon Bid News announced. Te ball starts at up at Registration: £55, rooms £119 We love the Helsinki in 2017 Bid 20.00 and is sponsored by the per night (less than they thought!. —a Worldcon where the sun never Dublin in 2019 Worldcon bid. sets! [Tis is not strictly true—all Those Hugo Nominees the pedants in the room] Please DooLallyCon Have the Sad Puppies made you swing by the Helsinki party from Next year’s Eastercon will be sad? The Hugo Awards, what just 22.15 in Armstrong and give them Mancunicon, held in a hotel TBA, happened, and what it means will be all your money enjoy Finnish but probably in Manchester, from at 21.15 tonight in Bleriot, will specialities. 25 to 28 March. GoHs are Aliette feature Niall Harrison (moderator), We also love the Dublin in 2019 de Bodard, Dave Clements, Ian Vincent Docherty, Gaie Sebold, Bid—a Worldcon where the sun McDonald and Sarah Pinborough. Kari Sperring, Charles Stross, and is don’t shine! [Tis may not mean Attending membership is £60, sure to be lively. what you think it means—Ed.] under-12 £30, under-3 free. Puppy Antidote Available! Please catch up with them at the Concessionary rates TBA as soon Masquerade Ball and give them all We are thrilled to hear that Pasgon as they work out the numbers. your money enjoy the lovely Irish GoH Jo Walton has won the Buy your membership from what scenery, like James Bacon’s legs. Tiptree Award for My Real was the Dysprosium Registration Children, along with Monica BSFA Awards desk today because they need the Byrne’s Te Girl in the Road. Te Novel: Ancillary Sword by Ann money quickly! long list and a further honour list Leckie (Orbit) Check out the committee, led by provide a great guide to Short Story: “Te Honey Trap” Pat McMurray, in Chad Dixon’s explorations of gender that you by Ruth EJ Booth (La Femme, photo below. should turn to whenever the Hugo Newcon Press) nominations make you feel sad. Art: Te Wasp Factory by Tessa Farmer (for Loncon 3) Non-fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers and the First World War by Edward James 6(www.fantastic-writers-and-the- great-war.com, and banners at Loncon 3) Note that Farah Mendlesohn left the room for the counting of the non-fiction award. Monday’s Kaffeeklatsches Free On-Line Comic Photos Wanted 11.15-12.15, Armstrong: Caroline Crucible, an SF adventure Sean McLachlan is writing a con Mullan, Charles Stross, Helen disguised as swords-and-sorcery by report for the Black Gate blog. Pennington, Freda Warrington. John Freeman and Smuzz, is He’d love to use some of your best 13.45-14.45, Armstrong: Jim available on line at tapastic.com/ shots of funny moments, crazy Butcher, Herr Döktor, Benedict series/Crucible. costumes, UFO sightings, etc. Jacka, Ian Watson. Email [email protected] The Wise Fan’s Guide to or find him at the con. He’s the Monday Programme Changes Navigating the Street of guy drinking Real Ale and buying Cunning Artificers Faeries (11.15, Discovery) actually books. [Tat should make him easy features Susan Bartholomew, not Te con has deviously placed to spot—Ed.] many pitfalls for purse and pocket Bartholomey, will be moderated More Literary Records by Raven Dane, and will feature along the corridor that leads from Benedict Jacka. the Real Ale Bar to the Michael Abbott would like to programme rooms. Beware of the know who beat him to publishing What Is a Planet Anyway? (13.45) eldritch and envious ancient ones, fiction. He did it in 2100 BC with will be held in Endeavour, not who will attempt to separate you the semi-autobiographical Epic of Bleriot. from your hard-earned money by Gilgamesh (in which, fictionally, Unseen University Challenge devious, desperate and even the hero does not achieve (13.45, Bleriot) is a new disparate means. Be ready to leap immortality). Can anyone beat programme item, which does just past enticing portals wherein glow that? In the UK? On the streets of what you’d expect from the name. ineffable wonders. Beware of Ashkelon? stepping on the patterns in the Abdul Al-Hazred would like to On the film/TV programme, carpet in the wrong sequence or Bubblegum Crisis will now run for know who beat him to publishing you may be launched into the the word of the Great Old Ones. 90 minutes, Outland episodes 5 arms of the many-tentacled and 6 will now start at 11.45 and He was rent asunder by unseen horrors from whom there is no tittering forces on the streets of Castle in the Sky will now start at escape (unless you buy 13.15. Baghdad in the ninth century. something). Duck the moose Can anyone beat that? In New noose, sidle past the snares, don’t Abi Brady has helpfully England? On the ancient Plateau trip over the traps! Hardest to reformatted the programme in a of Leng? list with rooms and times. You can avoid is the subtle mind access it at tinyurl.com/p7bxfqq. control...mind contr… mine! it Neal Stephenson would like to must be mine! Aaarrghh! know who beat him to writing a MaineCooniCon three-volume novel with a quill. MaineCooniCon is going to be an MancUnicorn Apart from everyone in the Eastercon mainly focusing on Meanwhile, MancUnicorn is a eighteenth century or earlier. mythical beast that I dare not Seanan McGuire’s cats. Greg Egan would like to know describe. —@johncoxon who beat him to inscribing a short —@aardvark179 story described by a fractal pattern in the spin-state of a proton, but mostly so he can retroactively remove their past from the four- dimensional surface of true spacetime. River Song would like to know who wrote Hello Sweetie on the 3cm microwave radiation pattern generated in the first three 6minutes of the universe, because she’s pretty sure it wasn’t her. Clickety Click! is the newsletter of Dysprosium, the 2015 Eastercon. Produced by Flick, Alison Scott, Michael Abbott and Jan van ’t Ent. Fab fillo by Smuzz: thank you for speed custom art! This newsletter contains no dongles swastikas. Esme laid an egg!.
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