Registration

Registration Information

Registration

Membership prices are as follows:

Date	Adult Price	Child Price (ages 6 - 11)
Through 11/30/2010	$35	$18
12/1/2010 - 2/25/2011	$40	$20
after 2/25/2011 and at the door	$45	$23

Children under 6 are free, but we do need a registration form for them

Banquet

Feast with our guests in the hotel banquet hall. Guest speeches, awards, and food – what more could you ask for? All this for only $20.

ConSuite Giveaway

Enter the Con Suite Giveaway for a chance to win books and other prizes. You also gain access to premium beverages in the Con Suite. Only $5, and all proceeds go to our charities.

NOTE: If you are registering for a family/multiple people, there will be an option to return to this form on the payment page after clicking "submit". Please enter the first and last name of the primary membership in the "Other: " field for all registrations.

MidSouthCon 29 Registration

Please enter the following information:

Note: Enter first and last name of primary membership in the "Other:" field if entering multiple registrations:

First Name:

MI:

Last Name:

Suffix:

Age as of 3/25/2011:

Name on badge (if different from above):

Email Address:

Do you wish to receive progress reports via email?

Yes

Have you been to a previous MidSouthCon?:

Yes

Address:

Address line 2:

City:

State:

Zip:

Phone(Digits only):

I am attending the Writer's Conference:

Yes

Other:

We are constantly trying to improve the convention. We would appreciate it if you could
take a few moments and let us know which parts of the convention interest you most:

Guests	Gaming	Con Suite
Art Show	Video Room	Masquerade
Dealers Room	Anime Video Room	Banquet
Programming

If you checked Programming above, please let us know what types of programming
you would like to see more of at MidSouthCon:

Speculative Literature	Gaming	Comics
Writers' Conference	Educators Seminar	Filk
Science	Anime	Paranormal
Costuming	Media	Art

Important Stuff

Social Sites

Sci Fi News

Borders Goes Beyond Books
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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Mission

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.

Non-Profit

MidSouthCon is presented by Mid-South Science and Fictions Conventions Inc. a non-profit type 501(c)(3) Corporation. Donations are welcome (and are tax deductible).

Contact

Address: MidSouthCon
P.O. Box 17724
Memphis, TN 38187-0724
info@midsouthcon.org
www.midsouthcon.org