April 15, 2015
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT RE: THURSDAY NIGHT MAY 14
There have been a great many inquiries about Thursday evening. Thank you all for your CON-tinued interest! Our initial plan was to sponsor and co-host a special Thursday evening event featuring our Science Guest Dr. David L. Clements from the UK. Negotiations with our proposed co-host fell through when they incorrectly applied their current budget funds to another project. For a few months now we’ve been re-grouping and trying to salvage the concept and re-implement with another co-host. At this time we regret to report that outside factors have squashed all of our backup plans to the point where we’ve run out of time: if something did gel, we don’t feel there’s enough to flog it properly and make it work well – if at all.
Sadly, our Thursday evening special event is cancelled.
Regretfully Yours
— Your CoChairs
John Mansfield
John Speelman
January 27, 2015
We’ve been receiving some inquiries about our announced dates for Keycon 2015: May 14, 15, 16, & 17 2015
May 14, 2015 is indeed a Thursday…
Our initial plan was to sponsor and co-host a special Thursday evening event featuring our Science Guest Dr. David L. Clements from the UK. Negotiations with our proposed co-host fell through when they incorrectly applied their current budget funds to another project. So now we’re re-grouping and trying to salvage the concept and re-implement with another co-host. At this time there is nothing firmed up as yet. But we aren’t giving up yet and will keep you updated as new information comes in.
— Your CoChairs
John Speelman
John Mansfield
August 11, 2014
Keycon is pleased to announce that Keycon 32 (2015) will once again be held at
The Radisson Hotel Downtown Winnipeg
288 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Watch the Hotel page for further information.
August 5, 2014
Also Coming this month in paperback: Treecat Wars (2013)
The third book in the New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult “Star Kingdom” series has two young settlers on a pioneer planet seeking to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans. The fires are out, but the trouble’s just beginning for the treecats. On pioneer planet Sphinx, ruined lands and the approach of winter force the now Landless Clan to seek new territory. They have one big problem – there’s nowhere to go. Worse, their efforts to find a new home awaken the enmity of the closest treecat clan – a stronger group who’s not giving up a single branch without a fight Stephanie Harrington, the treecats’ greatest advocate, is off to Manticore for extensive training – and up to her ears in challenges there. That leaves only Stephanie’s best friends, Jessica and Anders, to save the treecats from themselves. And now a group of xenoanthropologists is once again after the great secret of the treecats – that they are intelligent, empathic telepaths – and their agenda will lead to nothing less that treecat exploitation. Finally, Jessica and Anders face problems of their own, including their growing attraction to one another. It is an attraction that seems a betrayal of Stephanie Harrington, the best friend either of them have ever had.
August 5, 2014
Coming this month in paperback, a new release by one of our Author GoHs: Beginnings (2013)
(The sixth book in the Worlds of Honor series)
An anthology of stories edited by David Weber:
The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues with a collection of tales by New York Times bestselling authors Timothy Zahn, Charles E. Gannon, David Weber and more. Themission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a galaxy touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Honor Harrington. This sixth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series includes stories by 1635: Papal Stakes coauthor and best seller Charles E. Gannon, New York Times bestseller and Star Wars phenomenon, Timothy Zahn and Joelle Presby. It’s rounded out with an all-new David-Weber-authored novella featuring a young Manticoran Royal Navy commander who goes by the name Harrington.
May 18, 2014
Stay tuned for more information about Keycon 32
