Shirt two for #nwc40: a clever take on lowbrow humor.
Norwescon
Norwescon is the Seattle-area SF/F convention I’ve been volunteering at since roughly 2010. Once a year, I go get geeky with about 2,500 of my closest friends at a local hotel for a weekend.
Got my #nwc40 tattoo! (Temporary.) I’m stupidly happy about this; it started with a silly offhand comment at a meeting and then I found a good source for us to use. My mad schemes came through! 😁
Shirt one for #nwc40: #StarTrek/#StarWars logo mashup. Here we go!
I have my #nwc40 badge! I’m officially here!
2017 PK Dick Nominees
The nominees for this year’s Philip K. Dick awards have been announced! I look forward to this list every year, as the award ceremony is held at Norwescon each year. For the past few years I’ve been making it a point to read all of the nominees before the ceremony, so that I can have my own opinion as to which work I think should win (and so far, I haven’t picked correctly once), and because it’s a lot of fun to be in the room with the authors or their representatives when the award is given out.
This year’s lineup looks like an interesting one. Of the six books, only one looks to be in the post-apocalyptic vein, which I count as a good thing, as that was a definite theme for a few years that I got a little burnt out on. Of the other five, one book is a YA novel, one’s from a Cuban author and has been translated to English, one looks to be more straightforward SF adventure, one looks enjoyably weird, and one looks particularly interesting to me.
I’ve ordered my copies from Amazon, they should be here early next week, and I’m looking forward to diving into them.
Book eight of 2017: Desolation Road, by Ian McDonald (@norwescon’s Writer Guest of Honor for #nwc40). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Many thanks to my @norwescon friends who brought #Lego #minifigures to yesterday’s ConCom meeting to trade (and who were kind enough to let me snag a few more of their extras too…). Some nice new additions to our lineup!
At our first @norwescon planning meeting for #nwc40! Lots of friendly geeks fiendishly scheming and dreaming up ideas for next year’s convention. Much fun! (261/366)
(Since I’m the social media guy for @norwescon, I can post this myself as well. Bonus!) Have you registered for #nwc40 yet? This is the time to do it! A full four-day membership is only $50 today and tomorrow…and goes up to $60 on Thursday, September 1st! Get the best deal for a full weekend of #scifi and #fantasy fun, with Author Charles de Lint, Artists Cory and Catska Ench, Scientist Ethan Siegel, Toastmaster Nancy Kress, and Spotlight Publisher Angry Robot Books, by registering before our membership price goes up! See our website to register.
#sf #con #convention #charlesdelint #coryench #catskaench #ethansiegel #nancykress #angryrobotbooks #norwescon #norwescon40
A full and fun weekend of gothclubbing at the Merc, Star Trekking at the Cinerama, being a dinosaur at the @norwescon picnic, hoteling, and shopping. Now back home in the ‘Burg and feeling a little zonkered. (206/366)
