Ian McDonald: Conventions

Ian's Convention Appearances

• 2002 Novacon 32 (1st-3rd November), Walsall, England.
  Ian is the sole GoH.
• 2002 Octocon 2002 (19th-20th October), Dublin.
  Ian appears as a guest on the convention.
• 2002 Mecon V (8th-10th March), Belfast.
  Ian appears as GoH together with Michael Cobley, Ken Macleod and David Wingrove.
• 2001 Octocon 2001 (13th-14th October), Dublin.
  Ian appeared as a guest.
• 2001 Mecon Delta (9th-11th March), Belfast.
  Ian appeared on the convention, but not as GoH.
• 2000 Octocon 2000 (21th-22th October) in Dublin, Ireland.
  Ian appeared on the convention as a guest.
• 2000 Semana Negra/Hispacon (summer 2000) in Gijon, Asturias, Northern Spain. Ian comments:

  This summer I was a guest at the massive and magnificent Semana Negra/Hispacon in Gijon in Asturias in Northern Spain, with Robert Sheckley, Dave and Annie Pringle and Lois McMaster Bujold, and it was tremendous, more like the Glastonbury festival than a SF con -- which is what it was: a sf con attached to a week long outdoor celebration of crime writing and American noir. About 250,000 souls passed up and down in that week. Bloody magnificent!

• 2000 Mecon 2000 (March 11-12) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Info through mecon2000@net.ntl.com.
• 1999 Octocon X (October 9-10) in Dublin, Ireland.
  Ian will appear at the convention, but not as Guest of Honor.
• 1999 SF-Tage 11 / Trinity (May 21-24) in Dortmund, Germany.
  Ian will appear at the convention, but not as Guest of Honor.
• 1999 Mecon 2 (March 13-14) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  Ian is one of the guests at this convention.
• 1998 Mecon (April 18-19) in Northern Ireland.
  Unfortunately, their web pages have almost no information whatsoever.
• 1998 Intuition: Eastercon 1998 (April 10-13) in Manchester, England.
• 1997 Finncon 97 (August 16-17) in Helsinki, Finland.
• 1997? SF Tage, Germany.
• 1992 ConFuse 92 (June 12-14) in Linköping, Sweden.
  The program book from ConFuse 92 contains the short story Big Chair, written for the convention.
  A few of the panels that Ian participated in have been transcribed.
  • Ian McDonald interviewed by Carina Björklind and Calle Dybedahl.
  • Cheap Seats in the Big Church, Ian McDonald's GoH speech.
  • Author/Editor: A panel with Ian McDonald, John-Henri Holmberg, and Andreas Björklind.
• 1989 Unicon X in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

If you know of other conventions that have had Ian McDonald as a guest of honor, please let me know about it. I'm also interested in conventions that haven't taken place yet, of course.

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