Below are the 12 most recent journal entries recorded in Imagicon - Swecon 2006's LiveJournal:

Monday, October 2nd, 2006
2:37 pm [jophan]	Preliminary programme up! Enjoy: www.imagicon.se/program.html. (Comment on this)
Friday, August 4th, 2006
5:11 pm [jophan]	Frågesport (Swedish only) En av programpunkterna på Imagicon är en prestigeladdad frågesport som spänner över hela fältet, litteratur och film. Vår frågefarbror Magnus Olsson ger nu er alla en chans att slipa upp er skicklighet med några omgångar diagnostiska frågor, en omgång i veckan. Första veckans tema är Terminator. Frågorna finns på Imagicons webbplats. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
10:36 am [jophan]	Regarding Geoff and Mundane SF ianmcdonald writes about 21st Century SF today, citing Cheryl Morgan in Emerald City: 21st Century SF, in contrast, will concentrate on the future after the fall of the American economic empire. It will often be set in former Communist countries, and in countries now regarded as "Third World" such as India and Brazil. The prevailing technology will be biological. Early examples of the sub-genre might be M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life, Geoff Ryman’s Air, and Ian McDonald’s River of Gods (not to mention the eagerly awaited Brasyl). (Comment on this)
Monday, May 15th, 2006
2:02 pm [jophan]	Geoff Ryman New Guest of Honour Good news, award-winning Geoff Ryman joins Joe Haldeman as guest of honour at Imagicon! Ryman has published eight novels, one short story collection and edited an anthology of Canadian SF. His shorter fiction has won the British Science Fiction Association Award twice and the World Fantasy Award. The Child Garden won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the John W Campbell Memorial Award (first place). WAS, a mainstream historical novel about the American West and Oz, won the Eastercon Award as Most Enjoyable Novel. 253, a novel for the Internet in seven cars and a crash, won the Philip K Dick Award. Air has won the Arthur C Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Canadian Sunburst Award and the James Tiptree, Jr Award. It was also nominated for the Nebula and Philip K Dick Awards and placed in the John W Campbell Memorial Award. Geoff currently teaches Creative Writing on the University of Manchester undergraduate and MA programmes. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 8th, 2006
12:59 pm [jophan]	Camouflage won the Nebula Joe Haldeman's novel Camouflage was awarded the 2005 Nebula by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula Award is one of the most prestigeous awards of the science fiction field. Congratulations from the committee to our guest of honour! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
4:48 pm [jophan]	Martin Andreasson Fan Guest of Honor Imagicon announces its fan guest of honor: Martin Andreasson. Martin, who has been active in Swedish fandom since the age of 14, accepted the invitation, "deeply moved and honored". Martin quickly became a prominent fan, was fan GoH at a convention the first time in 1985, won the Alvar award in 1988 (with his brother Malte) and issued many well-written fanzines during his first ten years in fandom (and the odd one after that as well). He is also a former chair of the Alvar Appeltofft Memorial Foundation. These days he is a member of the Swedish parliament. He is guaranteed to be a magnificent fan guest of honor! (Comment on this)
1:17 pm [jophan]	War Stories, published in January 2006, is a 405-page collection of all of Joe Haldeman's writings about Vietnam. It includes two complete novels, War Year and 1968, as well as seven short stories, two narrative poems, and three essays. Buy War Stories from amazon.com, using Joe's affiliate link, making sure he gets a share. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
10:01 pm [jophan]	ImagiContest - Imagicons novelltävling Message in Swedish about a short story contest for the convention. Only Swedish contributions can participate. Imagicon arrangerar en novelltävling med följande regler: 1. Tävlingen är öppen för dig som är medlem i kongressen. Du får delta med högst tre bidrag, som inte får ha varit publicerade tidigare. 2. Bidrag ska vara skrivna på svenska och vara 5 000-30 000 tecken långa. Det motsvarar ungefär 2,5-15 sidor i en vanlig pocketbok. 3. Tema eller motiv ska vara science fiction, fantasy, övernaturlig skräck eller besläktad genre inom den fantastiska litteraturen. Skicka bidragen till noveller(at)imagicon.se senast kl. 24.00 den 1 september 2006. Alla bidrag måste skickas via e-post. Alla bidrag som skickas in kan komma att publiceras på www.imagicon.se. Priser 1. Första pris är två års prenumeration på den amerikanska tidskriften "Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". 2. Andra pris är ett års prenumeration på "Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". 3. Tredje pris är ett presentkort på 200 kr i SF-bokhandeln. (Prenumerationspriserna kan bytas mot presentkort i SF-bokhandeln för motsvarande belopp om vinnaren så vill.) De bäst placerade novellerna kommer att publiceras på www.imagicon.se och, i mån av plats, i kongressens programbok. Vinnarna får dessutom var sitt elegant diplom under den stora prisutdelningsshowen på lördagen. Bidragen kommer att anonymiseras innan de skickas vidare till juryn, som alltså läser och bedömer novellerna utan att veta vem som är författare. Juryn består av: * John-Henri Holmberg, redaktör och utgivare av tidskriften Nova Science Fiction. * Jörgen Peterzén, redaktör åt Natur och Kultur, specialist på fantasy. * Catharina Wrååk, förläggare på Bonnier Carlsen, specialist på fantasy. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 6th, 2006
2:24 pm [jophan]	We had a committee meeting on Wednesday, inspecting our con site: (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, December 19th, 2005
2:38 pm [jophan]	Do you want to spread the word? Vill du hjälpa oss att göra reklam? Klicka på den här annonsbilden: Sorry, this banner is only available in Swedish at the moment. If you want to feel élitist, use it anyway on your non-Swedish page. Just click the banner and copy the HTML you will find on the page you're taken to. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
4:36 pm [jophan]	Habemus logotypam (Comment on this)
Friday, November 11th, 2005
9:44 am [jophan]	Son of Ferdinand Marcos big Haldeman fan From an interview with Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr: "Unlike his father, he does not play golf and although he went on a skiing holiday abroad three years ago, Bongbong Marcos insists leisure for him means lounging at home and reading the life work of cult science fiction author Joe Haldeman." See philstar.com for the whole interview. It was brought to our notice by Mitch Wagner on sff.people.joe-haldeman. (Comment on this)