Day: February 26, 2016

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Five Reasons You Should Come to Contact in March

We’re now four weeks away from Contact 2016 and – if you’re an SF fan in the Brisbane area who is on the fence about going – I’d encourage you to go register sooner rather than later. Why? Well, as a guy who has run a few con-like events and attended many more, let me expound on some of the major reasons. ONE: THE GUESTS ARE PEACHY-KEEN I mean, seriously, peachy-fucking-keen. I mean, you’ve got Ben “Rivers of London” Aaronovitch; you’ve got Jill “ex-editor of the Mary Sue” Pantozzi (and if you’re not hitting The Mary Sue at least once a week, then we probably can’t be friends any more); you’ve got Keri “more novels than you’ve got fingers and toes” Arthur, who is one of those people I leap at the chance to program every GenreCon; you’ve got Maria “Whose Afraid?” Lewis, who has been building some incredible momentum with her debut novel. Getting your guests right is a huge part of putting conventions together. It’s