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Flere danske gæster

Efter flere år som koordinator for Fantasticon trådte Flemming R. P. Rasch sidste år tilbage for at lade nye kræfter komme til. Ud over at være con-arrangør er Flemming også forfatter og udgav i 2011 novellesamlingen Minerne på Orthomyx på Science Fiction Cirklens forlag.

Beskedenhed holdt ham dog fra at sætte sig selv på programmet, så han har faktisk aldrig fået lov at fortælle om sine noveller. Det bliver der rettet op på, når han på dette års Fantasticon medvirker i en forfattersamtale med Gudrun Østergaard, som sidste år debuterede med samlingen Tidsfordærv.

De er dog langt fra de eneste danske forfattere, man kan møde på Fantasticon 2013. I forvejen har Peter Adolphsen, Michael Kamp og Henrik Harksen været annonceret, og til dem kan vi nu også tilføje Sven Damgaard Ørnstrup og A. Rune, som diskuterer dansk fantasy med Toke Riis Ebbesen fra forlaget Replikant, som har udvalgt novellerne til antologien Ny Dansk Fantasy 2013.

Endelig kan vi også præsentere en debutant, Mikkel Harris Carlsen, hvis novellesamling Kakerlakmennesket – 18 grotesker netop er udkommet på forlaget Valeta.

Her er bogtraileren:

Liz Jensen will bring doom

We know it. The apocalypse was so last year (and was indeed the theme of Fantasticon 2012), but that has not deterred us from inviting Liz Jensen, author of the two apocalyptic novels, The Rapture (2009) and The Uninvited (2012), to Fantasticon 2013.

Liz Jensen grew up in England, but is half-Danish and is married to Danish writer Carsten Jensen. She divides her time between London and Copenhagen and will be at Fantasticon on September 8th.

We have also added Danish author Michael Kamp to our guestlist along with editor, publisher, author and H. P. Lovecraft-expert Henrik Harksen.

Selv om dommedag var så meget sidste år (og var temaet for Fantasticon 2012), har det ikke afholdt os fra at invitere Liz Jensen, den anmelderroste forfatter bag de to apokalyptiske romaner The Rapture (Varslet, 2010) og The Uninvited (De ubudne, 2013).

Liz Jensen er englænder, men har en dansk far og er gift med den kendte forfatter Carsten Jensen. Hun har bopæl i London og København og vil være på Fantasticon søndag den 8. september.

Hjemmesiden Apokalyptisk har lavet dette interview med Liz Jensen:
“Jamen dette er Helvede, og jeg har ikke forladt det”

Vi har også føjet yderligere to danske navne til vores gæsteliste: forfatteren Michael Kamp samt Henrik Harksen, som kan skrive både forlægger, redaktør, forfatter og H.P. Lovecraft-ekspert på visitkortet.

More guests

Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck will be joining award-winning author Tricia Sullivan as our Guests of Honour at Fantasticon 2013.

Karin Tidbeck’s fiction has been praised by famous authors like Ursula K. Le Guin, China Miéville, Michael Swanwick and Karen Joy Fowler, and she received rave reviews for her first collection in English, Jagannath, which went on to win the Crawford Award 2013. It also made the honor list for the Tiptree Award 2012.

Several of her recent short stories can be found online:
Sing, Tor.com, 2013
A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain, Lightspeed Magazine, 2013
I Have Placed My Sickness Upon You, Strange Horizons, 2013

Karin Tidbeck won’t be the only Swedish author at Fantasticon 2013 since we have also added Nene Ormes to our guest list. She is the author of two fantasy novels in Swedish, Udda verklighet and Särskild, and is a member of the jury for the Tiptree Award 2013.

Finally, we can announce our first Danish guest, Peter Adolphsen, who is the author of the science fiction short novel, År 9 efter Loopet (Year 9 After the Loop), which was published earlier this year to great acclaim.

First guest announced

Welcome to the website of Fantasticon 2013. After last year’s three day-event we are back to the more usual two days at Valby Kulturhus in Copenhagen from September 7th to 8th.

We are pleased to announce award-winning author Tricia Sullivan as our Guest of Honour. Tricia won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her 1999 novel Dreaming in Smoke and was shortlisted for the same award for her novel Maul in 2004. Her latest novel is Lightborn from 2010. She has also been writing fantasy under the pen-name Valery Leith. An American by birth she is now living in England with her family and has studied martial arts, so you probably shouldn’t mess with her.

Keep visiting this site or our Facebook group for further updates and information. In the following months we will announce more guests and details about the programme.