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BayCon 2018 Fan Guest of Honor

Announcing Christopher J Garcia as BayCon 2018 Fan Guest of Honor!

BayCon 2018 is extremely pleased to announce that two time Hugo Award winner Christopher J Garcia has accepted our invitation to be Fan Guest of Honor. Chris has been active in SF Bay Area fandom for many years and is a former Guest and staff member of multiple BayCons.

Christopher J Garcia is a writer, fanzine editor, curator, filmmaker, and historian from Boulder Creek, California. He won the Hugo for Best Fanzine in 2011 for co–editing The Drink Tank and in 2015 for Journey Planet. He’s made short films, produced documentaries, programmed film festivals, and edits the film journal Klaus at Gunpoint as well as Journey Planet. He makes a living as a Curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

If you don’t know already, one of his most notable Hugo nominations was for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form. The work he was nominated for? His first Hugo Award acceptance speech.

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Programming is Live!

The BayCon 2017 Programming schedule is now live! Go to our event site to view the full weekend of programming, read about our amazing guests and create your own schedule so you are already prepared when you get to the hotel.

The schedule this year is packed with over 200 programming items. We have a variety of panels focusing on this year’s theme, and many events that focus on the craft of SF&F writing, hosted by numerous published authors. But BayCon programming will have so much more, including:

  • The Variety Show & Masquerade
  • The Imagination Health Fair
  • The Fish Dance
  • Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
  • Charity Casino & Karaoke
  • The Maker’s Workshop (formerly DIY)
  • Live Action Role Playing
  • Live Concerts
  • …and more!

And don’t forget autograph sessions, interviews and demonstrations from our Guests of Honor and other featured guests!

Program Books will be available for all members when you come to get your badge, including a PDF and ePub version for e-readers. But all you’ll really need is your smartphone. You can download the grenadine app (iOS | Android) to view events and manage your schedule while you are the convention. Use the event code “BayCon17” to add BayCon to the app.

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The Expanse has been nominated for a Hugo award!

The 2017 Hugo Award finalists have been announced, and our Guests of Honor Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck are on the list! The Expanse has been nominated in the Best Series category. In fact, there are two other past BayCon Writer Guests of Honor on the ballot this year: Seanan McGuire AND Lois McMaster Bujold have also been nominated in the same category. We wish them all the best of luck!

Check out the complete list of Hugo nominees for 2017 here: http://www.tor.com/2017/04/04/2017-hugo-award-finalists-announced/

Hugo Award

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James S.A. Corey AMA January 26th

Daniel and Ty AMA

Have a question for Daniel and Ty? They’re doing an AMA on Reddit, January 26th, Noon ET. Here’s the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/