VCON
Vancouver's premier science fiction and fantasy convention
Promoting Science Fiction and Fantasy in Canada and the Pacific Northwest since 1971!

Join us this year in Surrey, 9 minutes from Surrey Central Station, for a weekend of art, sf, gaming and fun times.
VCON 37 – September 28 to 30, 2012 – Sheraton Vancouver Guildford

VCON 37: Post Apocalypse

Guests of Honour

Photo of Connie Willis
Author Guest of Honour
Artist Guest of Honour
Photo of Gregory Benford
Science Guest of Honour

The Key Keeper
by James Ng
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There you are in this normally-respectable hotel, minding your own business, when you see a man in a long velvet cloak. He's wearing a name tag saying "VCON."

You decide to follow him. As you walk, the hotel transforms. Colourful swirls of art float by on one side; through a series of open doors you see people with blindfolds bearing giant inflatable hammers, a swordfight in progress, and groups of people intent around tables with board games and cards spread out.

More costumes: goggles, assassins, Fae... a Stormtrooper doing the robot?!?

"What's going on here?" you ask yourself. "Do they book surplus lunatics into hotels now?"

Don't worry.

We're not crazy, we're science fiction and fantasy fans. And we're harmless.

Mostly harmless.


Whoever you are,
Whatever form of joy you take from scifi and fantasy,
VCON invites you to join us!

Headlines

May 12, 2012 @ 4:04 pm

Because of the issues with the release of this...

May 12, 2012 @ 3:56 pm

Uh-oh... There was a mistake in the May VCONversation!

We're sorry to say that the link to the online version of...

May 9, 2012 @ 9:48 am

Issue #3 of the VCONversation Newsletter (May 2012) is available now!

May 8, 2012 @ 3:28 pm
Joss Whedon, along with the release of his new horror-comedy Cabin in the Woods, has just released the even-more-anticipated...
May 7, 2012 @ 7:09 am
VCON's 2nd Annual Cookie Taste-Off will take place on Saturday afternoon in the Hospitality Suite. Depending on the...

Blog Posts

May 6, 2012 @ 10:12 pm
How have they managed to come up with another Spider-Man movie? How is making sequels like re-inventing the wheel? Uncle Victor has the answers, or at least the opinions.
May 6, 2012 @ 10:00 pm
Have you ever attended the Awards Hour at VCON? This is a special event absolutely unique to VCON and found nowhere else. It features half an hour devoted to the infamous ELRON Awards followed by a half hour assigned to the equally...
April 3, 2012 @ 3:41 pm
Part two of Uncle Victor's continued musings on why we’re so into watching the end of the world play out on screen. The Seventies were a time of cheese, gore, the ushering in of a new dawn in scary!
March 31, 2012 @ 1:42 pm
Afraid to participate? Afraid professionals will tear your writing to pieces and, along with it, your self-respect, your self-esteem, not to mention your goals and dreams? Afraid the VCON Writers’ Workshop is like a military boot camp where they...
March 7, 2012 @ 8:37 am
Welcome to (my introduction to) the VConversation, our new monthly newsletter! I'm Sayata Gabriel, and I've signed on as Communications Coordinator this year for VCON 37. I’m putting together the newsletter mostly by myself for now, with the...