The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, Anticipation, took place in Montréal, Canada from August 6-8, 2009. You can find out more about it in the following places:
For some advance reporting on the site, see Cheryl Morgan’s video diary of her site inspection visit earlier this year.
And reports from those who attended can be found below.
Panel Reports
- Karen Burnham on the Non-Fiction for SF Fans panel
- Cheryl Morgan, Kathryn Cramer and David Anthony Durham on the Cultural Memory panel.
- The Krugman-Stross interview, transcript by Edwin Steussy
- Kate Nepveu: Postcolonial SF
- Kate Nepveu: Traditional Women’s Crafts and Fantasy
- Kate Nepveu: Death, Illness and Disability in Fantasy and Science Fiction
- Kate Nepveu: The Philosophy of Science
- Kate Nepveu: White is Good, Curves are Great, but Seldom a Purple Face to Be Seen
- Kate Nepveu: Anatomy for Writers, Heroes and Tavern Brawlers
- Skwidly: lots of panel reports indexed here.
- pale_chartreuse: Steampunk! panel
- pale_chartreuse: Environmental SF&F panel
- pale_chartreuse: City of the Future panel
- pale_chartreuse: Future of Energy panel
- Cheryl Morgan: The Best Fanwriter panel
- Cheryl Morgan: Future of Gender panel
- Tor.com: Gaiman and Doctorow on Copyright
- Boing!Boing!: The Stross-Krugman panel
- Chad Orzel: How to Talk about Science
- Mish: Exploring the Classics panel
- Niall Harrison: Knights who say F***! panel
Convention Reports
- Lou Anders
- Frank Wu
- Matthew Surridge
- Karen Burnham
- John Picacio
- Éric Gauthier (en Français)
- Ann VanderMeer (interviewed at Amazon by her husband, Jeff)
- Paul Cornell: Part I and Part II
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Ben Jeapes
- David Anthony Durham
- Tom Crosshill
- John Scalzi
- Daniel Rabuzzi
- Gaspodia
- Abigail Nussbaum
- Darlene Marshall
- Cereal Girl
- Lauren Beukes: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 (from South Africa!)
- Christian Sauvé (en Français)
- Petrea Mitchell: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7 (not sure what happened to Part 1)
- John Scalzi on the Hugos
- Technology News
- Tom Stidman: Part I and Part II
- Lev Grossman (in Time)
- bruyere_75: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
- Hour: on Neil Gaiman
- Hour: convention preview
- CJAD Radio (transcript)
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Gözlem Gazetesi (Turkish)
- Adrienne
Hugo Award Reports
- Airlock Alpha
- SF Signal
- SciFi Wire
- The Guardian
- Wired
- CBC News
- Montreal Gazette
- TwinCities.com
- About.com
- Fantasy Book Review
- FantasyMundo (Spanish)
- BookList
- SciFi Watch
- io9
- Fiction Kult (Hungarian)
- Tallahassee.com
- ComicMix
Text Interviews
- Élisabeth Vonarburg (Spanish)
- Tom Doherty (Spanish)
General Interest
- Ciencia Ficción en Québec (Science Fiction in Quebec, in Spanish)
- La ciencia ficción canadiense (Canadian Science Fiction, in Spanish)
- La ciencia ficción en francés (French Science Fiction, in Spanish)
Photo Steams
- John Picacio
- Ellen Datlow
- io9
- Something rather special from Mary Robinette Kowal
- Scott Edelman
- Kyle Cassidy’s fan photo shoot
- Charles Mohapel’s official Masquerade photos, Part I & Part II
- Victoria Janssen (mainly tourism)
- LittleWolfStar
- Irene Gallo
- LGBTech
- Filker Dave
- Karen W. Newton
- Rani Graff
- Molly Kalafut (a great set of pictures of authors at the signing tables)
- Anne KG Murphy
- Steve Rogerson
- Karen Jeane
- justeps
Audio
- The Krugman-Stross interview
- Thru The Wormhole: Episode 1
- Thru The Wormhole: Episode 2
- Thru The Wormhole: Episode 3
- Thru The Wormhole: Episode 4
Video
- Gaiman Reads Doctorow: Part I and Part II (Tor.com)
- History of Tor panel: Part I and Part II
- Opening Ceremonies (Scifiwatch)
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Day 0
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Day 1
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Day 2 Part I, Part II and Part III
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Day 3 Part I and Part II
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Day 5
- Zond2’s Worldcon Diary: Wrap
- Cory Doctorow on New Media
- Cultural Memory panel (dyingofthelight)
- Time Travel in Film panel: Part I and Part II (raynilee)
- Closing Ceremonies (bluejeep)
- A lovely montage from Timeshredder
- Fast Forward: Why Robert Silverberg Comes to Worldcon
- Fast Forward: John Picacio interview
- Fast Forward: Andrea Senchy interview
- Fast Forward: Pat Cadigan interview
- Fast Forward: Gary K Wolfe interview
- Fast Forward: Chesley Award Winners
- WSFS Business Meeting: Friday
- WSFS Business Meeting: Saturday
- WSFS Business Meeting: Past Worldcon Chairs Photo
- WSFS Business Meeting: Site Selection Business
- The Angry Robot chats up Lauren Beukes
- John Scalzi plays Rock Band (lisriba)
- CBC Television News
- CTV Television News, including star appearance by FluffCthulhu
