Fantasticon 2025 is held on May 30th to June 1st at Støberiet in Copenhagen. On May 30st there will be casual programing and setup.
Guests of honor: Aliette de Bodard, Jasper Fforde and special guest Giuseppe Festino who has created the beautiful poster.
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Guests of honor
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards. She is the author of Navigational Entanglements, a xianxia-inspired romantic space opera, and of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023). She lives in Paris.
Photo: Chloe Vollmer-Lo
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde is an British writer living in Wales, writing science fiction and fantasy with an absurdist twist. He is known for his series Thursday Next, but has also written a number of other series and stand-alone novels, including Shades of Grey and the Nursery Crimes.
Giuseppe Festino
Giuseppe Festino is an Italian illustrator and painter who since the 1960’ies has illustrated a number of Italian and international science fiction novels and movie posters, including covers for Italian versions of Stephen King’s IT og Robert Bloch’s Psycho and the movie poster for H.G. Wells’ Things to Come.
Fantasticon 2025 is this year’s national Danish Copenhagen science fiction, fantasy and horror convention. It is a fan-run convention – hosted by fan for fans. It is a space designed to let fans, writers and artists interested in the genre intermingle and create community. Fantasticon is a 100% volunteer project. Once again the convention takes place in Støberiet in Copenhagen. Read more about Fantasticon
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GoH Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a System Architect. She studied Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, but moonlights as a writer of speculative fiction. Aliette has won three Nebula Awards,an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and five British Science Fiction Association Awards.…
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GoH: Jasper Fforde
Fantasticon is proud to present Jasper Fforde as one of our two Guests of Honor at Fantasticon 2025. Jasper Fforde is an British writer living in Wales, writing science fiction and fantasy with an absurdist twist. He is known for his series Thursday Next, but has also written a number of other series and stand-alone…
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Poster by Giuseppe Festino
We are happy to announce both poster and guests of honor for Fantasticon 2025! This year’s guests of honor is: Aliette de Bodard & Jasper Fforde – which is just really really exciting! The illustration on the poster is by this year’s special guest : Giuseppe Festino who is an Italien artist who has been…