Rampant fanboyism alert
Feb 2nd, 2008 by lavonardo
Woo. On the double.
George R.R. Martin will be Finncon 2009 (Helsinki, 10-12.7.) Guest of Honor!
As will Alastair Reynolds.
Hopefully the former will have published A Dance With Dragons by then. And should the book actually emerge this year, a finnish translation would not be an impossible target for the con.
And the latter ought to have regained his feet after the literary disaster that was Absolution Gap. Haven’t read any recent Reynolds’ books, but have Pushing Ice on the shelf, so the return to the category of “pleasant authors” will be validated soon enough.
And speaking of conventions with an impressive set of guests of honor - Orbital 2008, this year’s british eastercon, is hard to beat. A single representative of the Neil Gaiman / China Mieville / Charles Stross-triplet would be plentiful, let alone all three of them.