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We've been enhancing our panels over the last several years with more varied and focused tracks and this year is no exception!  
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  We have several events that mark major points during the convention and we always aim to entertain!
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MidSouthCon has been supporting both local and national charities for more than two decades.  
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With 17 category winners and hundreds of folks walking the halls in costume, everybody wins!  
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Our Gaming offerings have continued to get better and better over the years. Come see what we have in store for this year's convention!  
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MidSouthCon 29 Registration is OPEN!

Registration is open!

Registration is now open for MidSouthCon 29!

We've got a new location at the Memphis Hilton right in the heart of East Memphis, some great guests and lot of great things planned, so register early!

   

James P. Hogan, 1941 - 2010

It is with great sadness that we must report the passing of James P. Hogan on July 12, 2010.  At this time we have no information other than he passed away in his home in Ireland.

On behalf of the MidSouthCon Convention Committee we would like to express our deepest condolences to his wife Sheryl and his children.

He was a wonderful guest and we were looking forward to having him back in Memphis.  We deeply regret not being able to enjoy his company again.

Please keep his family in your thoughts, and we will post more information as we get it.

We would also like to thank The great Luke Ski for graciously agreeing to step into the gap and be our Toastmaster for 2011.

Danny Chamberlin
Co-Chairperson


   

MidSouthCon 28 Masquerade Winners!

The annual MidSouthCon Masquerade was held on Saturday, 3/13/2010.  There were a lot of fantastic entries, and funny and entertaining "halftime" performances by Media Guest of Honor Marc Gunn, and the ever-diabolical Dr. Osborn!

The decisions were tough, but our winners for this year:

Category

Costume Name

Best Journeyman Recreation - Science Fiction

Leda K'stoba

Best Novice Recreation - Science Fiction

Grave Robber

Best Novice Recreation - Workmanship

Charlotte

Best Novice Recreation - Comic

Rorshach

Best Novice Recreation - Anime

Haruhi Suzumiya

Best Novice Recreation Horror - Workmanship

Pyramid Head

Best Novice Recreation - Fantasy

Kira from Xanadu

Best Anime Skit

When Worlds Collide

Best Journeyman Recreation - Video Game

Vincent Valentine

Merit for Anachronistic Recreation - Handicraft

Rinoa Heartily

Best Junior Costume Recreation - Video Game

Mario and Luigi

Best Novice Original - Fantasy

Raife the Thief

Best Leather Masterwork

Aedric in Ceremonial Armor

Best Textile Masterwork

Assassin's Creed II Ezio

Best Science Fiction Recreation - Workmanship

Mandalorian X

Merit Award - Junior Skit - Randomness

Check It Out Girls Hit MidSouthCon

Best in Show - Best Masterwork Group

Apparition Abolishers

 


 

   

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    In the wake of disappointing sales for the second quarter, Borders Group has announced plans to expand non-book products in many of their 679 stores. CEO Mike Edwards said, “We are taking steps to transform our retail model, in part through high-impact strategic partnerships, like Build-A-Bear Workshop, that enable us to offer a compelling mix [...]
  • Stephenson & Bear Collaborate
    Neal Stephenson & Greg Bear, with Subutai Corporation, announced the launch of their speculative fiction historical adventure novel The Mongoliad, released on PULP, Subutai’s new, interactive social book platform. The platform immerses readers into the world of the novel, letting them experience “meta-narrative” and “para-narrative” by inclusion of character sketches, videos, articles, short stories, music [...]
  • Black Library announces Hammer and Bolter
    Gaming-related publisher Black Library has announced a new downloadable short fiction magazine, Hammer and Bolter, to launch in October as part of their new e-book publishing initiative. Each issue will sell for £2.50, and the debut issue will feature a previously-unpublished Warhammer story by John Brunner, who died in 1995. Other authors contributing work to [...]
  • Red Light Properties - Chapter 22

  • The Speed of Time

     

    “Light goes by at the speed of time,” Marlys once told me.

    That was a joke, of course. Light can be slowed to a standstill in a photon trap, travel on going nowhere at all forever in the blueing distance of an event horizon, or blaze through hard vacuum as fast as information itself moves through the universe. Time is relentless, the tide which measures the perturbations of the cosmos. The 160.2 GHz hum of creation counts the measure of our lives as surely as any heartbeat.

    There is no t in e=mc2.

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Our primary focuses are literacy and education. To that end, we have held an annual convention in Memphis, TN for over two decades hosting numerous authors, editors, scientists, and artists. We also hold a free seminar for educators and librarians, a writers' conference with workshops by award winning authors and editors, and annual student art and writing contests.

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