August 10-12, 2007 Louise Marley Gary Lippincott Sharyn November Patty Wells Howard Waldrop
Austin, TX
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August 10-12, 2007

What's New

ArmadilloCon starts tomorrow!!!
There will be a PODcast available for those folks who can't make it. The good folks at RevolutionSF will be posting the PODcast on their site. They will also have some blogging going on.
> Visit RevolutionSF

07/31/07 - The programming schedule has been finalized (barring any minor changes).
> Get a look at the final schedule

07/19/07 - The programming schedule is live. This schedule is tentative and I am sure it will have 20,000 changes before the final pocket program.
> Get a look at the panel listing

07/15/07 - The room rate is expiring on July 19, 2007.
> Get your reservations

06/17/07 - Help us with Fannish Feud by filling out our short survey!
> See the questions

06/16/07 - Congratulations to previous ArmadilloCon Guests of Honor who won Locus Awards!
Best Science Fiction Novel - Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
Best Novella - "Missile Gap", Charles Stross
Best Short Story - "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Neil Gaiman
Best Anthology - The Year's Best Science Fiction: 23rd Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed.
Best Collection - Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman
Best Editor - Ellen Datlow
Best Artist - John Picacio
> See the full list

06/15/07 - Longtime attendee Mark Finn has had some great news lately. First, he won 1 1/4 Cimmerian awards on June 8, 2007. Then, he and his lovely wife Cathy Day had an article written in the Austin Chronicle about their theatre . So when you see Mark at ArmadilloCon, give him a hard pat on the back to congratulate him!
> Read the article
> Find out more about the Cimmerian Awards

06/01/07 - We have a LiveJournal! Join the ArmadilloCon LiveJournal community and s tay up-to-date about ArmadilloCon happenings.
> Join now

05/16/07 - We have had several professionals be gracious enough to accept positions on our Writers' Workshop.
> Find out who will be teaching

04/17/07 - It has been announced that longtime ArmadilloCon panelist Alexis Glynn Latner's first novel, Hurricane Moon, will be coming out in July. I am sure there will be copies for sale in the dealer's room. Congrats Alexis!!!
> Read a Review (towards the bottom)

04/12/07 - Longtime ArmadilloCon member and FACT reading group attendee, Elze, has posted some photos she took at ArmadilloCon 27 and ArmadilloCon 28.

03/31/07 - Hugo nominations are in and several guests and participants of ArmadilloCon (past and present) have made the list!

Novel - Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace); Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor)
Novelette - "All the Things You Are" by Mike Resnick
Short Story - "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman
Related Book - John Picacio, Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio (MonkeyBrain Books which is run by Chris Roberson); Mike Resnick & Joe Siclari, eds., Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches (ISFiC Press)
Editor, Long Form - David G. Hartwell (Tor Books); Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books)
Editor, Short Form - Gardner Dozois (The Year's Best Science Fiction); David G. Hartwell (Year's Best SF / The New York Review of Science Fiction); Stanley Schmidt (Analog); Gordon Van Gelder (Fantasy and Science Fiction) Sheila Williams (Asimov's)
Professional Artist - Bob Eggleton; John Jude Palencar; John Picacio
Semiprozine - The New York Review of Science Fiction, ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell, & Kevin J. Maroney
Fan Artist - Brad W. Foster; Teddy Harvia

03/24/07 - RevolutionSF Radio has posted their podcasts from ArmadilloCon 28.
> Listen to the readings

03/21/07 - We will have a planning meeting on March 31, 2007 at 12:00 pm. If you are interested in working on ArmadilloCon and would like to attend, please contact the chair and she will give you further details.

03/14/07 - Created banners for people to use to link to ArmadilloCon from their website.

03/14/07 - The participants have been invited and we already have 39 wonderful panelists!

02/09/07 - Added a links page that promotes other Texas conventions and local writers' groups.

01/28/07 - The ArmadilloCon website is alive and growing!