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Details: The 2015 edition of LuxCon, the Luxembourg Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Convention, will take place on the weekend of 28 - 29 March at Centre Culturel Schungfabrik in Tétange.
The event, organised by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Society Luxembourg is a convention based on the North American model which aims to give the opportunity to fans, geeks and nerds to celebrate their favourite books, shows, games, movies, etc.
In 2014 over 1,500 young and young-of-mind people found their way to the event - pictures, videos and more information of which can be found on www.luxcon.lu.
This year the presence of Game of Thrones and Star Wars Episode 7 actor Miltos Yerolemou, world class science fiction and fantasy writers, award-winning Aliette De Bodard and Adrian Tchaikovsky, as well as increased space and programming size should prove attractive.
Sat 28 March: 10:00 - 23:00
Sun 29 March: 11:00 - 17:00.
SPECIAL GUESTS
- Aliette de Bodard is a writer of fantasy and science fiction (and occasionally horror). Aliette has won two Nebula Awards, a Locus Award, a BSFA Award, as well as Writers of the Future. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards. Her new novel, The House of Shattered Wings, is forthcoming from Gollancz (August 20th 2015) She has published unique Aztec mystery-fantasies with Servant of the Underworld, Harbinger of the Storm, and Master of the House of Darts.
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, a British Fantasy Author, is best known for his Shadows of the Apt series. The first book in the insectoid fantasy, Empire in Black and Gold, was published in 2008, while the tenth and final book, Seal of the Worm, appeared in 2014. He uses roleplaying games as inspiration and testing-ground for his world-building. His most recent novel, Guns of the Dawn, is a flintlock fantasy. His latest venture, a science fiction novel, Children of Time, is set to be published in the summer of 2015.
- Miltos Yerolemou is a Greek-Cypriot actor based in London. He was a regular on the BBC’s children’s show Hububb, but rose to genre fame with his depiction of Syrio Forel, First Sword of Braavos, whom Ned Stark hires to teach his tomboy daughter Arya the use of the sword. Though his appearance on HBO’s adaptation of George RR Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones, was short it was very memorable. Miltos can next be seen in a yet undisclosed role in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens.
- Marc Hoffmann, born on 18 August 1983 in Paris, started writing when he was nine years old. He has since started to diversify his output: Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, a play (Work On), comic books, a participation in Erratum, a Berlin magazine, and as a journaliste for the website Lorrainedarts.fr.
- Alexander Knörr’s main output are books and articles on fringe sciences. His first pre-astronaut-era SF novel Quantensprung 2012 – The day when we will be taken! was published in 2012. In the meantime the second volume Die Kinder von Eureka in the Chroniken von Tilmun Series has been published.
- Torsten Low Publishing was created by the Lows in 2005 with the Fantastic a priority. Fair Publishing is Torsten Low’s Motto, striving to find a mix of unpublished and published, young and confirmed authors. Its important for him to stay true to himself.
- Born in 1996, Astrid Méan was soon drawn to speculative fiction. Her passion for greco-roman mythology and antiquity pushed her to blend it with her other fascination : Fantasy. At sixteen she finishes Deorum Interfectores : Alter Ego, the first volume of six in an epic saga.
- The multiple award winning French author Raymond Milési, born in 1947, is mainly known for his science fiction texts. We owe him several novels and many novellas, as well as essays on writing. He has been a delegate with the French national science fiction convention since 1988.
- Peadar Ò’Guilin, is the author of The Bone World Trilogy (The Inferior, The Deserter, and The Volunteer) the last volume of which appeared in June 2014. The books of the series have been or are on their way to being translated to German, among other languages. Peadar lives and works in IT in Dublin.
- Claude Peiffer, born in 1963 in the South of Luxembourg, trained as a bookbinder and taught himself media desing. The husband and father likes to read, write, work with computers and cook authentic Thai and Indian food. He is the author or the Cerateran series in which the third volume, was released in 2015.
- Philippe Sombreval lives in Arlon. Passionate about manga, modelling and medieval entertainment, he brings them alive in his work and his everyday life. Out of this was born Aralune, his first novel. Illustrator, graphic artist an author, he easily immerses the audience in his world.
- Born on 12 April 1952 in Metz, Pierre Stolze is a former pupil of the National Superior School of the Rue d’Ulm, former teacher of classic literatures and a Doctor of literature. His Thesis, defended in 1994 is on the rhetoric of Science Fiction. Since 1984 he is a full-time writer and since 1996 a critic for Bifrost magazine.
- Dirk van den Boom, born 1966, belongs to the better known German writers of SF/Fliterature. Aside from Military SF, SF-crime and a bit of Fantasy, the core of his work is the alternative-history-series about The Emperor's Men, now also available in English.
- Fascinated by the industrial revolution and the nineteenth century, Suzanne Vanweddingen, loves trains, making them a main element of La Cité, an anticipatory universe with Steampunk elements. She has also written crime novels, set in Nineteenth century Darlington, birthplace of British rails.
- Sarah Verlaine, born on 2 February 1997 in Luxembourg, started writing short stories on the web around the end of 2013. In 2014 she published her first major paperback novel: Awakening in her Realm of the Angels Trilogy. Besides writing she likes diving and plays violin and flute. She is currently training to be a nurse.
- The Munich born Uschi Zietsch has been publishing in various genres since 1986. In 1987 she founded Fabylon publishing with her husband. Since 1996 she is a freelance author. She is presenting her main work, The Chronicles of Waldsee, with a reading followed by a discussion.
Venue: Centre Culturel Schungfabrik in Tétange
Organiser: Science Fiction & Fantasy Society Luxembourg
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URL: For details, see www.sffs.lu.
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