• Balticon is the Maryland Regional science fiction convention, sponsored by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS). It has been held annually since...
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  • 501c3 literary society based in Baltimore, Maryland, the BSFS sponsors Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. BSFS is an active organization...
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  • Baltimore Science Fiction Society at their annual science fiction convention, Balticon, held in Baltimore on Memorial Day weekend. The award, also known as the...
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  • from the original on 4 November 2020. "2020 Compton Crook Award – Balticon 54". Balticon. Archived from the original on 30 October 2023. "2019 Nebula Award...
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  • people. Bouchard states it had had over 15 million views by 2020. The Balticon Film Festival for amateur short films awarded The Hunt for Gollum their...
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  • Dragons in July 2010. A chapter titled The Forsaken was read in May 2016 at Balticon. It was written in, or before, 2011 but there was no confirmation that...
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    Online Studios, and DrChrono. The Hunt Valley Inn has been the site of Balticon in the past. Hunt Valley Towne Centre is the main shopping area. It was...
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    Author Guest of Honour at the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention (Balticon) in May 2009. He was Author Guest of Honour at Fantasticon (Denmark) in...
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    Year Award Place Category Title 2009 Compton Crook Award Nomination Balticon—Best First Novel Way of Shadows 2009 Gemmell Award Nomination Legend Award...
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  • Night Voyages #9 (Spring 1983) "Winter's Dream"—appeared in The BSFAN—Balticon 31 Program Book (1997) "The Good Magician"—appeared in Songs of the Dying...
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  • four books until 2012. In 2009, he premiered a stand-up comedy routine at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention. Van Name has worked in the information...
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  • culture conventions, and has appeared as a guest speaker and panelist at Balticon Heliosphere, DerpyCon, DexCon, Shore Leave, Farpoint, Lunacon, the Maryland...
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  • culture conventions, and has appeared as a guest speaker and panelist at Balticon, Confluence, Heliosphere, LunaCon, DerpyCon, DexCon, Far Point, Shikkaricon...
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  • conventions, including: SiliCon (1998); SheVaCon (2000, 2003); Albacon (2002); Balticon (2003, 2016); MarsCon (2003, 2017); PortConME (2004, 2011); CONduit and...
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  • Nominee Balticon 19 Masquerade – Best Marvel Comic Re-Creation (Nightcrawler) Balticon 20 Masquerade – Journeyman Costumer – Honorable Mention Balticon 29...
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  • including Westercon, Xanadu, Loscon, Demicon, LoneStarCon 2, LepreCon, Balticon, Artist Guest of Honor at Arisia '14, and others. Lubov's work has won...
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  • Balticon 15 in 1981; Disclaves in 1985, 1989, and 1992 (co-chair); and Capclave in 2005 and 2014. He was Fan Guest of Honor at Unicon, 1983; Balticon...
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    Gould's first novel, Jumper, was nominated for the Compton Crook Award (Balticon - Best 1st Novel) and came in second for the Locus Award for Best First...
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    Genre Improv Performance Art Venue Katsucon, ConnectiCon, Otakon, MAGfest, Balticon, Small Press Expo, AwesomeCon, ROFLcon, Intervention (convention), Black...
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  • relatively rare for an owner and creator of such a series to do. 2005 Balticon Film Festival: Best Film 2005 Star Walking Film Festival (Australia): Best...
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    various science-related and science-fiction-related conferences, including Balticon, The Amazing Meeting, NECSS, and Dragon Con. She published her first book...
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  • final session, several years passed before a similar mid-Atlantic group (Balticon) began meeting on Memorial Day. The highest attendance was 1485 (in 1979)...
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  • (inducted 1998) Big Heart Award, 2004. Albacon 2012 – Fan Guest of Honor Balticon 2018 — Fan Guest of Honor Asimov Centennial Meetup 2020 — Panelist Filthy...
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    misspelled his name on the title page of Driftglass, as did the organizers of Balticon in 1982 where Delany was guest of honor. Delany has identified as gay since...
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  • made into a short film, The Grandfather Paradox, and shown at the 2006 Balticon Science Fiction convention where it won the Best Film Award. It was also...
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  • BabelCon Baton Rouge, Louisiana United States general [10] 2012-10-12 Balticon Baltimore, Maryland United States general [11] 2023-05-26 BayCon Santa...
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  • fantasy and epic romance". 1989 – Compton Crook Award, Compton Crook Award (Balticon – Best 1st Novel) (Nomination) 1989 – Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel...
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    to 40–50. He was a guest of honor at many genre conventions, including Balticon, CONduit, LepreCon, and Life, the Universe, & Everything. His wife, Sandra...
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    "Books", Cosmos, July 1977, p. 35. "In Memoriam: Steve Stiles (1943-2020)", Balticon 54, retrieved October 24, 2020. F. Brett Cox, "Steampunk", in: The Greenwood...
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  • Games — at that point known as "Salone Internazionale del Comics" Marcon Balticon Houstoncon British Comic Art Convention Comic Art Convention Minicon Aggiecon...
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