Wizard Cancels Two WizardWorld Conventions

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Citing the current economic climate, Wizard has postponed its annual Los Angeles WizardWorld Convention and cancelled its convention in Texas. The Los Angeles show was scheduled to take place on March 13-15 and the Texas show was scheduled to take place in November.  No word yet on when the Los Angeles convention will be re-scheduled. [...]

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Death Stars and Combat Robots at the Phoenix Comicon

The Phoenix Comicon has added two more sci-fi guests. They are Richard LeParmentier (“Admiral Motti” from “Star Wars”) and Marjean Holden (“Sheeva” from “Mortal Kombat: Annihilation”) -- “Don’t mess with these people,” said Amy Black, Guest Liaison Director, “One is an Imperial Officer and the other a killing robot, so be on your best behavior!” [...]

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MileHi CON

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MileHiCon, the Rocky Mountain Region's largest literary science fiction convention will be celebrating its 40th anniversary October 24-26 at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center-Denver. Run entirely by volunteers, MileHiCon will feature more than 80 authors and speakers, programming on every aspect of the science fiction and fantasy genres, the largest science fiction/fantasy art show in [...]

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Starship Farragut Premiere‏

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[Click on the above to be taken to the official Starship Farragut Website]

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Future of Television Forum

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Future of Television Forum (FTF) , now in its 8th year, is a 2-day executive conference, unlike any other, that brings together key decision-makers from cable and broadcast networks, cable and satellite operators, high-tech, Internet, mobile and advertising to focus on the future of television. The event, which is widely recognized as one of the [...]

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Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention

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What: Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention When: Sunday, October 12th 2008 Where: At Shrine Hall - 700 W. 32nd Street Los Angeles, California -- (across from the USC campus) Cost: Admission: $8.00 Special Guest: Brent Spiner -- Appearing 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. To sign his new "Dreamland" CD Brent Spiner starred as Data on [...]

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3rd Annual Scream Awards

The third annual “SCREAM,” Awards, a celebration of the best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic genre premiering on Spike TV Tuesday, October 21 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) from The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA. With categories including The Ultimate Scream, Best Superhero, Best Villain, Best Director, Most Memorable Mutilation and Best Fantasy Movie – [...]

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Jonathan Coulton Performing with Paul & Storm

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Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures, and a past guest on Slice of SciFi. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too [...]

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Phoenix Comicon '09 Gets Game with Yuri Lowenthal and Reuben Langdon

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The Phoenix Comicon has signed Yuri Lowenthal (The Prince in “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time”) and Reuben Langdon (Dante from “Devil May Cry” 3 and 4) to come and speak at the January ’09 convention being held on January 23-25, 2009 at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona. “Everyone be polite,” laughed Convention [...]

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Chat With Samuel L. Jackson - September 18, 2008

The award winning actor Samuel L. Jackson has been a past guest on our Slice of SciFi show and it brings us great pleasure to announce that Sam will be offering up a chat with his fans on his newly revamped official Website on Thursday, September 18. For more details about time REGISTER or LOGIN [...]

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Four New Sci-Fi Guests Explode onto the Phoenix Comicon Stage

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In addition to the already stellar guest line-up, which includes the iconic Lou Ferrigno (TV's The Incredible Hulk), Motion Capture and Voice Actor of Dante from Devil May Cry - Reuben Langdon and Matt Greenfield, the American co-founder of ADV Films -- the Phoenix Comicon has added actors Marina Sirtis, “Deanna Troi” from “Star Trek: [...]

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Eric Joyner's "Artificial Enlightenment"

The Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California (USA) will be presening Eric Joyner’s new paintings for his upcoming show, “Artificial Enlightenment”. Inspired by science fiction, toys, and Brandywine artists and illustrators of the 1900’s, Eric’s second solo with the gallery reveals the grittier side of robot life: mysterious donut factories, runaway steam trains and [...]

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All 2008 Parsec Award Winners & Nominees

The Winners and Nominees of the 2008 Parsec Awards are: Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) Winner -- "Red Man" - Scott Sigler Nominees "Metamor City: Huntress," - "Kissyman" - Scott Sigler "Delve", Variant Frequencies - Matt Wallace Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form) Winner -- "Heaven - Season Four: Wasteland" - Mur Lafferty Nominees [...]

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Slice of SciFi Wins Top Honors at 2008 Parsec Awards

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Slice of SciFi is proud to announce that we have won the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast. The Parsec Awards ceremony, the podcasting equivalent to the Oscars or Emmy, is held every year during the Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia and is the top award offered for podcasting and vidcasting. The 2008 [...]

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Superheroes in Asia

At this years Pusan Festival in South Korea the main theme will set around eleven superheroes in a tribute called "Superheroes in Asia." The event takes place beginning October 2nd, according to Variety Asia. Some of the other themes to be highlighted at the festival are anime with its "Ani Asia! A Leap of Asian [...]

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