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Beneluxcon in Antwerp will feature two programme streams:
The Art of Writing and
The Art of Reading.
We are developing a programme with panels and other activities to challenge and engage your habits as writers and as readers. Most or all of our programme will be in English.
Our two Guests of Honour are Justina Robson and Charles Stross
Justina Robson studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of York. She became a full-time writer after attending the Clarion West Writing Workshop and was first published in 1994 in the British ‘small press’ magazine The Third Alternative. Most of her seven novels, starting with Silver Screen in 1999, have been shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award or the BSFA Award. Her first four novels are ‘hard’ space opera, exploring mankind’s identity when interfacing with machines and other augmentations & inhabiting a universe with beings that are further evolved than they are.
Robson’s three latest books form the Quantum Gravity series, mixing demons, elf rock stars, fairies, killer robots and cracks in space; the Quantum Gravity series is also appearing in a Dutch translation.
You’ll find her website at http://www.justinarobson.co.uk/
Charles Stross has sold sixteen novels and two story collections since 2001. His work includes post- singularity space opera, a near-future thriller, parallel timelines’ fantasy as well as the ‘Laundry’ cross- genre novels combining aspects of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and the classic British spy thriller. His novella "The Concrete Jungle" won the Hugo award in 2005. Accelerando won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel. Glasshouse won the 2007 Prometheus Award. He is doing his best to ensure that cheap and/or DRM-free ebook editions of my work are available wherever possible, and Accelerando" is available as a free promotional download for readers from accelando.org
Stross holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science, and has worked at various times as a technical author, freelance journalist, programmer and pharmacist.
You’ll find his website at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/
Beneluxcon is held at the same time as Antwerp’s international Book Fair (www.boekenbeurs.be), the Lowlands’ major book event for the public, which attracts some 160,000 visitors and hundreds of authors to the city, and will give the place a special bookish buzz. There is a direct tram line between the Book Fair, held in Antwerp Expo, and the hotel: take tram 2 in direction Hoboken from the underground stop in front of the hotel.
Beneluxcon 2010 is run by experienced Flemish & Dutch organisers, including Guido Eekhaut
(Programme), Roelof Goudriaan (Venue), Frank Beckers (Finance), Ad Oosterling (Dealers).
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