Maryland’s Regional Science Fiction Convention BALTICONSM 39 Guests of Honor: Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due Artist Guest of Honor: Bob Eggleton Filk Guest of Honor: Jordin Kare Special Guest of Honor: May 27-30, 2005 E. E. Knight Memorial Day Weekend 2004 Compton Crook Award Winning Author A Four-day 24-hour-a-day Extravaganza! Hundreds of guests: authors, publishers, editors, artists, scientists, musicians and over a thousand SF fans for the area’s largest & longest running convention of its kind! Science Fiction and Fantasy in books, magazines, art, film, costumes, games, music and more. Attend author panel discussions, readings, Live SF Theater, trivia contests, charity auction for Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), science briefings, concerts, anime theater, masquerade, poetry readings, and our Sunday Night Movie Festival. Visit our huge art show, dealer’s room, computer room, video room, skill demonstrations and other special events. Children’s programming, lots of kid stuff. Over 300 hours of programming! At the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel Convention membership rates: $43 until Feb 28 $48 Mar 1 until Apr 30 $55 after Apr 30 and at the door Group rate available, buy 10 memberships and get 11th free, e-mail for details. Hotel Rate for those needing rooms, $123.00+ tax, single-double-triple-quad; call the Wyndham for reservations at 410-752-1100. Special hotel rate for Balticon members only. Online registration and more information on our web site: WWW. BALTICON.ORG Phone: 410-JOE-BSFS (563-2737) Email: [email protected] Balticon P.O. Box 686 Sponsored by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Baltimore MD 21203-0686 a 501C3 non-profit educational organization. Live in or near Maryland? Consider stopping in to a BSFS meeting sometime. Check out www.bsfs.org for details - and for many SF web resources, covering every type of SF interest. When you visit BSFS you can check out our free SF lending library. Contact [email protected] to find out how you can help! Balticon is a service mark of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Art © Steve Stiles. © 2005 Baltimore Science Fiction Society. .