This year, the Dragon*Con app for iPhone and Android is absolutely fantastically awesome. On the coolness scale, the app rocks like an airship on plutonium. Have you installed the app on your phone yet? Because you should, you must, we cannot recommend it enough. Want to see your favorite celebrity? Click their name in the speakers/performers list and get an… Read more →
Whatever bugs might have been in the barcode registration system last year seem to have been worked out, and people are blasting through registration. The average wait time has varied from ten to 45 minutes, a vast improvement over the multi-hour waits in line to get into a ballroom to get into another line to get into an alphabetical line… Read more →
Les Johnson, is a NASA scientist turned science writer–no, wait, science fiction writer–hold the press, I meant science and science fiction editor. Actually, Les Johnson is all that and he continues to work at NASA while pursuing his writing and editing goals. He’s back at Dragon*Con for another year, ready to share his insights and talk about his books.
Because folks can’t be in multiple places at one time or always get to the most popular events at Dragon*Con, we live broadcast as well as video record some events for later showing on Dragon*Con TV. Check out the full 2012 DCTV broadcast schedule (link opens a Google Docs spreadsheet). You can also access the DCTV broadcast schedule as a… Read more →
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the non-profit writers organization founded by Damon Knight in 1965 and presenter of the Nebula awards, will have a table all weekend long at the Exhibit Level of the Hyatt. Come by, meet your favorite authors, and get their autographs!
Hear ye, hear ye! The Sheraton Information Booth is located on the 1st Floor. In the mobile app, the 3rd Floor Sheraton Map is also showing an Information Booth, but it’s wrong. If you need Dragon*Con information at the Sheraton, go to the 1st Floor, not the 3rd Floor. That is all.
For 2012, Dragon*Con is proud to offer collaborative programming with Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention! The following panels will feature simulcast guests and/or tape delay events in the Regency V Ballroom (Hyatt).
Baen Books authors at Dragon*Con will be signing at Larry Smith Booksellers, booths 309-311 in the Marquis Ballroom (Marriott). Don’t miss them!
