Hey all,
If you have read one of our earlier posts, then you know that we attended Balticon 2017 and picked up some great new books to read. We finished one of the books Into a Strange Land by Ben Anderson, which is the first book in his series The McGunnegal Chronicles. 
Continue reading The McGunnegal Chronicles-Book 1
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Awesome Con 2017 just ended and we wanted to say that we had a blast!
The staff was awesome (ha!) as always and they run a great convention. We particularly tend to like the Star Wars programming, because there are always awesome guests, moderators, and panelists involved. E.K. Johnston (the author of Ahsoka) being there this year certainly did not hurt matters any. Discussion of diversity among fandom and media was pleasant, not contentious and emphasized the fact that diversity is reality. Truth! Continue reading Awesome Con 2017
Hey all
This Memorial Day Weekend, the 51st annual Balticon was held by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. And were finally able to attend. And yes, yes, we hear your cries now, how is it that being the science fiction fans that we are, we have never been to Balticon before? The answer is simple-best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. Despite multiple attempts and plans to go to Balticon, something has always interfered, most typically family events. But this year nothing could stop up us-even works 😉 So while we did not make it all 4 days, we did get to go this year. And we had a blast.
For this of you who follow, you may know that this is not our first science-fiction specific convention, although we more often attend anime conventions-just due to frequency and the fact that anime is an open fandom. However, we love science fiction and were delighted to attend this convention. They had some very fun panels, particularly the influence of Baltimore on Science Fiction/speculative fiction. It was really great and featured some really great authors like John L French, Stephanie Burke, Jamaila Brinkley and T.C. Weber. It was really interesting to hear their perspectives.
We of course spoke to many authors with new or established books, such as Ben Anderson with The McGunnegal Chronicles which Yoseijira is particularly intrigued by as she is fascinated with fantasy based on Irish Folklore. Doommecha picked up Rune of the Apprentice by Jamison Stone-who was a really awesome guy and cosplayed the main character from his own series which was pretty fun. So look for some mention of those two works on our media in the near future.
And, as is becoming a Doomtastic tradition, we wound up sitting on a panel Friday night due to a need for additional panelists. Anime 101. It was really fun, and included Devin Jackson Randall and Stephanie Burke as well as Doommecha and Yoseijira. We had a lot of fun and think that we will probably be very involved in the anime programming track for Balticon in the future.
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We are freshly returned from Zenkaikon 2017, and hope that all of you had a weekend as awesome as we did. If you are familiar with us then you know that Zenkaikon is our favorite convention of the year and this year just reaffirmed all the reasons that we love this convention.
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We just got back from Tekko 2017 and we had a great time. This was our first time going to Tekko, and we decided to go because we have enjoyed our three years at Sangawa Project so much.
