The judges for the 2012 P.K. Dick award (next year’s, to be awarded in 2013 at Norwescon 36) have just been announced. Congratulations to Bruce Bethke, Sydney Duncan, Daryl Gregory, Bridget McKenna, and Paul Witcover! The full press release follows.
Norwescon 36 (2013) Election Update
Hello Norwescon ConCom members! Election season for Norwescon 36 (2013) continues!
The next Norwescon meeting (March 17) will be your last chance to nominate candidates for the offices of Chairman (Chair) and Vice-Chairman (Vice-Chair) and for the two slots on the GOH Selection Committee (GOH Committee). And it will be your last opportunity to question them!
(Information on the positions, their requirements and responsibilities are at the end of this post.)
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March ConCom Meeting
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
Note: This meeting will be your last chance to nominate candidates for the offices of Chairman (Chair) and Vice-Chairman (Vice-Chair) and for the two slots on the Guest of Honor Selection Committee (GOH Committee). For more details, please see this post.
March’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
TIME
10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch break
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
FUTURE EVENTS
- Stuffing Party: 4/1/2012
- Norwescon 35: 4/5-8/2012
- Post Con Meeting: 5/12/2012
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The Event Schedule is Live!
It’s here! The Norwescon 35 schedule of events! Get the rundown of every event happening all weekend long with our full event listings. Select the underlined day below to view the basic schedule and/or scroll down to use Guidebook and access printable versions of the schedule and grid.
Thursday, April 5 | Friday, April 6 | Saturday, April 7 | Sunday, April 8
Guidebook
This year, Norwescon has partnered with Guidebook to provide our online convention schedule. If you have a smartphone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or web-enabled devices), just visit this link to install the Guidebook app and download the Norwescon 35 (2012) guide!
While the Guidebook will be the most up-to-date version of our schedule, we are happy to provide downloadable files for your convention planning as well. You can find them on our Schedule of Events page.
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Norwescon to stream Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony
Norwescon will provide live access to the Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony on Friday, April 6, 2012, beginning at 6:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Individuals and groups wishing to view the ceremony should access the P.K. Dick Awards USTREAM channel at the time of the event.
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction books published in paperback original form for the first time in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the ceremony is sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society and held annually at Norwescon.
The nominated works for 2011 are:
A SOLDER’S DUTY by Jean Johnson (Ace Books)
AFTER THE APOCALYPSE by Maureen F. McHugh (Small BeerPress)
DEADLINE by Mira Grant (Orbit)
THE COMPANY MAN by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
THE OTHER by Matthew Hughes (Underland Press)
THE POSTMORTAL by Drew Magary (Penguin Books)
THE SAMUIL PETROVITCH TRILOGY by Simon Morden (Orbit)
Last year’s winner was THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK by Mark Hodder (Pyr) with a special citation to HARMONY by Project Itoh (Haikasoru). The ceremony was recorded during streaming and may be viewed at this USTREAM archive page. The 2011 judges are Scott Baker (chair), Mark Budz, Roby James, Darrell Schweitzer, Alice K. Turner.
For more information, contact the award administration:
David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545.
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society:
Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752
For more information about the Philip K. Dick Trust: www.philipkdick.com
For more information about Norwescon:
Contact Northwest Science Fiction Society: (425) 686-9737
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Two more hotels!
Good news! We’ve just added two more hotels to our list of hotels close to the convention with special deals for Norwescon attendees. That brings us up to your choice of six hotels within a mile of the convention hotel, just in case you didn’t get rooms on-site!
Today we added:
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites, Seattle Sea-Tac Airport, 19621 International Blvd., 206.592.8545 (distance: 0.6 miles). Rate: $99. Includes free parking, complimentary breakfast, and Internet access.
- Fairfield Inn Seattle Sea-Tac Airport, 19631 International Blvd., 206.824.9909 (distance: 0.7 miles). Rate: $109. Includes free parking, continental breakfast, and Internet access.
For the full list of alternate hotels, please see our hotel page.
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Gaming Schedule is Live!
We’ve just published our scheduled gaming lineup for this year! Munchkin, Pathfinder, D&D, Magic, and a whole lot more will be running throughout the convention. Take a look and see what sort of games catch your eye!
And, of course, if for some strange reason none of those seems quite right, our open gaming will be open on both floors of the Rotunda all weekend long!
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This Year’s TV Spot!
We are proud to present this year’s Norwescon 35 television spot!
Look for this spot to air on KBTC Public Television over the next month and a half as we gear up for Norwescon 35!
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Still need a room? We have a few left!
Norwescon has a number of rooms set aside in the room block (to be charged at the convention rate of $120/night) which were set aside last year for convention professionals who did not get to make reservations before the closure of the room block. Several of these rooms are left over and we are making them available to convention members on a first come, first serve basis. If you would like one of these rooms, please send an email to hotels@norwescon.org and include the following information:
- The date you intend to arrive and depart from the hotel,
- the name you wish to check in under,
- an e-mail address and phone number which the hotel can use to contact you,
- whether you would prefer to have a single king or double queen room.
Please also let us know if you have special requests, such as needing an ADA room, wanting the room to be placed in the party wing, if you have a reservation outside the room block which you need to cancel, or something else.
These rooms won’t last long, so act fast!
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Norwescon 36 Election Season is Here!
Hello Norwescon ConCom members! It’s election season again — for Norwescon 36 (2013)!
The next Norwescon meeting (February 18) will be your first chance to nominate candidates for the offices of Chairman (Chair) and Vice-Chairman (Vice-Chair) and for the two slots on the Guest of Honor Selection Committee (GOH Committee).
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