I see from Liz Williams’ LiveJournal that she has been asked to be GoH for Imagicon 2 in Stockholm next year. If I understand things correctly, that’s a firm event that is also bidding to be the 2009 Swecon. Liz is a wonderful writer (and has produced some fabulous Feminist SF as well as the brilliant Inspector Chen series). I hope lots of Finns (and other persons for that matter) make the trip to Stockholm.
(I’d consider going myself, but I have this Word Fantasy Con to prepare for, and anyway I may have no money by then.)
Imagicon should be good — the first one was definitely the most professionally organized Swecon I’ve been to. I have no doubts Imagicon 2 will win the Swecon bid next year. And since Stockholm is easy to get to, Imagicon 1 had the largest Finnish attendance at any Swecon ever (at least I’m pretty sure of that), and Liz Williams has been featured in Tähtivaeltaja (so she should be at least somewhat familiar to many Finns), I don’t think it should be too hard to get quite a few Finns to go there.
Liz in Sweden? Well that is a good news!