Get your memberships now – the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization is holding their Annual Nebula Award Weekend convention here in the Bay Area! Open to the public – you need not be a member to attend! It will be held from May 15 -18, at the San Jose Marriott. Join your favourite writers, publishers, editors, for three days of panels, events, tours and the SFWA Nebula Award Banquet.
Author Samuel Delany will become SFWA’s newest Grand Master, and science fiction author Frank Robinson will be a Special Guest. Noted author and WisCon Auctioneer Ellen Klages is the Toastmaster.
We are delighted to announce as well that an SF in SF Author Event opens the weekend, with two wonderful guests on Thursday, May 15th. Admission for non-Nebula Weekend attendees is $10, with all proceeds benefiting the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund.
Registration is currently $80.00 for SFWA Members and $90.00 for non-SFWA Members. Banquet tickets are $85, and may be purchased at the same time as your membership.
Delany has influenced science-fiction and fantasy, and literature in general, in different waysas fiction writer, critic, theorist, memoirist, editor, teacher. How has Delany influenced your own work or views on writing and literature? For readers who haven’t read much by Delany, is there such a thing as a Delany “gateway” story, novel or essay? Read the full roundtable here, via Locus Magazine