Fantasticon

Dealer’s Room

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:09:56 +0000

Vi har ikke fortalt så meget om hvad der foregår i dealer’s room, men her er nogle af dem vi er sikre på vil dukke op:

Read Die Repeat: Forlag som udgiver bøger indenfor blandt andet horror og weird fiction.

Science Fiction Cirklen: En forening der også er forlag, og har et kæmpe bagkatalog af science fiction på dansk, plus sikkert flere nye interessante udgivelser.

Fantasticon: Fantasticon står selv for salg af et udvalg af bøger. Udover det, kører der en hollandsk auktion fredag-lørdag-søndag med faste priser på 20-10-5 kr. hhv. Mest bøger på engelsk.

Foreningen Fantastik: Foreningen som oprindeligt startede Fantasticon vil også være at finde på Fantasticon, men da de fleste aktive medlemmer i foreningen også er med til at arrangere Fantasticon, vil der ikke være en separat stand, men der vil være mulighed for at få gratis numre af foreningens blad Himmelskibet, fra da det var et trykt blad (det er nu et e-magasin).

Science Fiction Cirklen og Fantastik er også sponsorer for Fantasticon, og vi siger mange tak!

Flere afbud

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:53:21 +0000

Her i dagene op til Fantasticon er der desværre kommet et par afbud mere. Det drejer sig om forlaget Gymnoten, som skulle være kommet lørdag formiddag og fortælle om deres tegneserier. Vi har også et afbud fra den ene halvdel af Supersnak, Kim Helt. Men frygt ikke! Fantasticons egen Tue Sørensen har lovet at kaste sig ud i kampen med at få styr på Marvel-universet, og vil assistere Marvel Morten som sit alter ego Tegneserie-Tue. Så der er stadig supersnak søndag.

Teddy Vork kommer desværre ikke

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:05:46 +0000

Teddy Vork er blevet forhindret i at komme. Han havde ellers glædet sig til at komme og fortælle om sine bøger, men det må blive en anden gang. Heldigvis har vi mange andre forfattere på programmet, som nu er opdateret på hjemmesiden.

Se her.

Programmet færdigt

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:37:33 +0000

Så er programmet – på nær enkelte detaljer – færdigt. Med mindre noget uforudset sker, kan man regne med tiderne.

Se programmet her.

Programmet – næsten færdigt

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:53:45 +0000

Programmet er nu næsten færdigt. Der er dog enkelte programpunkter som ikke er aftalt helt færdigt endnu, men de skulle gerne falde på plads i løbet af et par dage.

Se programmet her: Program 2021

Det vil løbende blive opdateret.

Der vil også komme en printbar version af programmet, så snart det er færdigt.

Fantasticon 2021 programmet

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 19:41:52 +0000

Programmet for årets Fantasticon er snart klart. Her er nogle af programpunkterne:

Interview med vores æresgæst Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen om hendes weird / science fiction roman Månen over Øen og det første bind af hendes nye fantasy-trilogi Vølvens Vej.

Interview with our guest of honour Laura Mauro about her collection of weird fiction Sing Your Sadness Deep and her current writing.

Live-optagelse af podcast’en Supersnak med Marvel Morten og Kim Helt.

Foredrag om Ray Bradbury, Stanislaw Lem og Gene Roddenberry, (de 100-årige)

Panel discussions about weird fiction.

Interview med Jakob Levinsen om at oversætte H.P. Lovecrafts samlede noveller og kortromaner.

Interview med mange danske forfattere af horror, weird, fantasy og science fiction.

Den årlige diskussion af science fiction i Danmark i forbindelse med uddeling af Niels Klim-prisen.

Guests of Honour and other announcements

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:12:53 +0000

We are now ready to present our two Guests of Honour, Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen and Laura Mauro. Read about them here on the webpage under Guests of Honour.

We also have a newsletter ready here.

Our plans for Fantasticon 2021

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:52 +0000

Last year the pandemic forced us to make Fantasticon an online event. In 2021 we hope that the pandemic will be over by September. If not, we will do another online Fantasticon, but with a larger program, and with the usual mix of Danish and English programming. But in case the pandemic is over, this is what we will do:

The venue will be the same as in 2017-2019, an old house owned by The Order of Serapion. This fits nicely with our theme for 2021 – The Weird Fantasticon – but please don’t be scared away from Fantasticon: Serapions-Ordenen is a club of very nice people doing humanitarian work in their spare time.

We want to explore the genre of speculative fiction called weird fiction and its recent incarnation new weird. This genre have a lot in common with the horror genre and is in some ways synonymous with horror. That means interviews and talks with writers, talks and panels about writers of the past, and some insight into the genre from academics and science too. We also want to have something about weird movies and weird graphic novels on the program.

While we are currently looking for writer guests from outside Denmark, to get insight into what is happening elsewhere in our world, we also want to highlight the many Danish writers of horror and weird fiction who are writing excellent short stories and novels, but are almost unknown by most of the Danish book reading public, and probably completely unknown outside Denmark.

Fantasticon is financed by membership fee and a few sponsors from fandom organisations. If we could, we would make the membership free or much lower for everyone. But we have decided to make membership free for everyone under 26, if they “buy” a ticket via our online system. With that we hope to see many new fans of the fantastic here in 2021.

Another new addition to Fantasticon is Fantasticon Junior. It´s an afternoon of activities for children. More on that later, when we get closer to Fantasticon.

Even though the theme is “weird”, the program of Fantasticon 2021 will of course also feature science fiction and fantasy. If you have ideas of what to get on the program, be it weird fiction, horror, science fiction or fantasy, please contact us via Facebook or by comments on this webpage.

And last, but not least: To get prepared for Fantasticon, we invite everyone interested to join a reading group for weird fiction. So far three meetings are planned: March 18, April 7 and April 21. The texts will be short stories in English, be writers from the start of the genre to writers from the 21th Century. Details will be posted soon.

Hope to see you at Fantasticon in September 3-5!

The Fantasticon 2021 organizers