05/09/13

              Author, mythologist, folklorist, and pro-bono demonologist Nathan Robert Brown will be joining us for A-Kon 24. His varied panel schedule includes two perennial favorites: Friday, 12:30pm, Peacock Terrace, “Fairy Tales Revisited” Saturday, 7:45pm, Coral Room, “Mythology for Narutards, 3.0″...

05/07/13

              They were super popular at A-Kon 23 and at Mini A-Kon, so they’ll be returning for A-Kon 24.  Here’s all the info on food trucks.  They’ll be located near the hotel’s Jade Entrance. Two Locations now: The trucks will be in 2 locations – the Jade Entrance in Atrium 2 and outside of the...

We’re still working on a permanent solution to our forums problem, but we do have an experiment for you in the meantime!  Why!?  For SCIENCE!!!  Facebook Forums is an app that you can add to your account and participate in all the same old conversations.  Organize a meet-up.  Schedule a photo shoot.  Share cosplay ideas.  And everything else you could do...

Thorpe, Patrick, and Everett Patterson, eds.  The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.  Fwd. Shigeru Miyamoto.  Afwd. Eiji Aonuma.  Trans. Michael Gombos, Takahiro Moriki, Heidi Plechl, Kumar Sivasubramanian, Aria Tanner, and John Thomas.  Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2013.  $34.99.  277 pp.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-1-616-55941-7.  (Original publication: Aonuma,...

Bramlett, Frank, ed.  Linguistics and the Study of Comics.  New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012.  xiv + 310 pp.  $85.00.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-0-230-36282-6. The basic purpose of this edited volume is best stated in the editor’s “Introduction.”  Namely  that this is “a book for anybody who wants to know more about how language and comics go together.  It begins...

Spiegelman, Art.  MetaMaus: A Look inside a Modern Classic, Maus.  New York: Pantheon Books, 2011.  301 pp.  $35.00.  Hardback.  ISBN 978-0-375-42394-9.  With MetaMaus: The Complete Maus Files.  DVD. Reader Warning: This volume is not for the faint of heart.  Confronting evil never is. This insightful work, by the author of the original Maus, brings to light...

Through our new Fandom & Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association initiative, A-Kon is seeking to support, assist, and promote fandom and media studies.  We are encouraging investigations and studies into these and related phenomena in the widest possible scope.  Though we are starting small, with a peer-reviewed online journal and hosting a conference, our...

After more than four decades, the fate of the Ringworld and its cast of trillions is revealed. Niven and Lerner have outdone themselves in bringing to a conclusion the saga of a world vast and diverse beyond measuring. And the ultimate danger comes from an unexpected front.

Robinson, already famous for his Mars and Environment Trilogies, tackles the questions of returning to a degraded environment on Earth after the human species has been living in space habitats and colonies around the solar system for several centuries.

Sherlock Holmes reenters the American canon of detective fiction in the new series Elementary.