ImagiCon 2015 has Alastair Reynolds as guest of honour

ImagiCon is a new, one day Dutch science fiction convention first held this year. For next year’s edition (march 21, 2015) they’ve announced Alastair Reynolds as guest of honour:

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a warm welcome to our first guest of honor for Imagicon 2015: The world-renowned British writer Alastair Reynolds! SF readers probably know him as the author of heavy books filled with exciting space opera like Revelation Space, House of Suns and Blue Remembered Earth, but also as the author of many short stories. Whovians may know of him from his Doctor Who book The Harvest of Time. On Imagicon you get can get to know everything about him, and of course you can ask for his autograph!

Of course under Dutch appelstroop rules –if an author is born in the Netherlands, has lived there for a significant time or has ever tasted appelstroop– Alastair Reynolds is Holland’s most renowned science fiction author, as he lived here from 1991 to 2008. He’s one of my favourite science fiction writers and although I’d already decided to go to ImagiCon next year, this only makes it easier.

UPDATE: a point of criticism. I actually went over to buy my ticket (only 16 euros! Reasonable!) but saw I had to register first for a horrible Paylogic system. Which wouldn’t be so bad, but it asks for all sorts of information, name, address, gender undsoweiter all to be able to use a system in all likelyhood I’ll only use for this con. Why not provide Paypal or Ideal, payment systems where the risks and safety is known off, rather than saddle your members up with an unneeded new system to keep track off?

3 Comments

  • Imagicon

    September 13, 2014 at 5:47 am

    Hello Martin,

    We’re sorry to hear that you’d rather not make use of Paylogic. We’ve opted for this system, because, as a starting convention, it’s downright impossible (not to mention quite expensive) to create and maintain our own system for digital tickets. We chose Paylogic because it’s one of the most reliable systems and even though people have to register/log in to buy a ticket, we can assure you that you will NOT receive any unwanted mailings from Paylogic or from our convention. The data they ask is used by us so we have a statistical overview of the public that attends our convention. It serves no other purpose.

    Of course we understand it if people would rather not use this system. It is also possible to buy a ticket at an event that Imagicon is attending without having to register or you can buy a ticket at the door. The downside of this last option is that you’ll have to pay the full price.

    We are always open to suggestions, ideas and of course criticisms, so please don’t hesitate to send us an email.

    Kind regards,

    Diana van der Pluijm
    Chairwoman of the Imagicon Foundation

  • Branko Collin

    September 19, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    Well, if it’s only for stastical purposes and won’t be used for anything else, really, pinky swear!, I suggest everybody lie on the form.

  • science fiction list

    December 10, 2014 at 10:14 pm

    That is great. He is probably the best sci fi writer publishing today.

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