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Ad Astra this weekend!

If you are missing Con*Cept, you should try Ad Astra.

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The weekend includes discussion panels and presentations on a variety of topics including writing, publishing, TV and movies, science and costuming, as well as events including book signings, a meet and greet with our Guests, writing workshops, our Masquerade costume competition, book launches, a Saturday night dance, live music, and The Tesla Tea Service, our charity event hosted by the Toronto Steampunk Society, and many more.

I noticed that former MonSFFan Graham Darling will be there! he starred in the MonSFFilm production Plant 9 from Outer Space.

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Graham J. Darling of Vancouver BC writes diamond-hard Science Fiction, mythopoeic Fantasy and unearthly Horror, and singular hybrids thereof, out now or soon in Sword & Mythos, Pulp Literature, Sensory Perceptions and Great Jones Street (http://fiction.grahamjdarling.com/). As Graham D. Darling PhD, he’s a consulting chemist who makes molecules such as the universe has never seen, with a dozen patents and over 30 articles in refereed journals; as Doctor Carus, he’s an alchemist who demonstrates medieval science & technology to school kids and passers-by.

Convention Review

Ad Astra

Ad AstraAd Astra was a good con, not their best, but not bad either. It turns out that many volunteers had only become involved in January. That’s really learning to swim the hard way! They did a good job indeed, considering the time they had.

I’ve no pictures, my camera just stopped working, yet it was fine a week ago. I did take some video of the masquerade, but haven’t had a chance to view it yet. If it’s OK, I’ll post it here. It was rather short compared to the good ol’ days, but there were some fine costumes, and good skits.

For me, the best panels were the ones on space ship design, police procedures myth busting, and 1966–the Year of. SF on TV.  There were an amazing number of panels directed at wannabe authors, and apparently a lot of wannabe authors were in attendance. The Mountie giving the police procedures presentation asked how many were in attendance because they were authors wanting to get it right, and nearly everyone raised a hand.

Regrettably, there was very little on costuming or art, and the art show was very small. Only one piece jumped out at me, an amazing Game of Thrones quilt.  There was no artist GoH, a big disappointment for me.
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There were free books to choose from at registration–cool! I found a new author I like.

The dealer room was ok, but at my age I am not much into collecting stuff. In fact, I have to start getting rid of stuff! There was a lot of jewellery, but when do I get to wear pretty things anymore? Many book dealers, I mostly spent time browsing their wares. There were complaints about the dealer room being downstairs and way off down the hall, but really there is not much choice given the space the con can afford to rent.

I’ve registered for next year. Ad Astra is one of a very few fan run cons left. and deserving of support.

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On the road, again: to the stars!

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Ad Astra is calling me! If I get out of the house at a reasonable time, I will be rolling down the 401 at this very moment.

I will try to post some comments and photos of the convention from the hotel.

Ad Astra is always a great con, regardless of the guests. Interesting panel discussions and workshops, but more important, good company!
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