One of the regular SF conventions in the South West of England is Microcon, run by the University of Exeter Science Fiction & Fantasy Society. This year it will be over the weekend February 23rd/24th, and I understand that the fabulous Kari Sperring will be the headline guest. Several of the BristolCon crew will be heading down there. They don’t have a public web page, but if you are on Facebook you can probably see the event page here. The con has been cleverly timed to overlap with the end of the city’s Animated Exeter festival. Philip Reeve will be on town for that, and hopefully he’ll pop into the con as well. (He was a GoH last year).
The reason I’m mentioning this now is that the Exeter folks have kindly asked me to come along and give a talk. I am, naturally, very pleased. All the more so, in fact, as I have a lot of family in Devon. I haven’t decided what I am going to talk about yet, but if any of you want to come along and jeer, heckle, protest and so on I’m sure that the Exeter folks would be delighted with the extra memberships. Plus you get to see Kari, and the fabulous cryptozoologist, Richard Freeman, and Steve Green whose talk about short online films last year was a lot of fun (I’d not heard of Pink Five before). Hopefully I’ll see some of you there.
Actually, Microcon doesn’t have a GoH as such (at least, not since the very early days), just lots of guest speakers. It’s a very crowded headline.
Really pleased you enjoyed my item last year. The final Pink Five movie (part three of Revenge of Pink Five) is in production right now, and I hope to twist Trey Stokes’ arm so that I can screen it – along with the previous four – at Novacon.
Whatever you call it, I’m honoured to be on the same bill as Kari.