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Bubonicon 55 · Aug 23-25, 2024!

Bubonicon is New Mexico’s best and longest-running Sci-Fi & Fantasy literary and arts convention. Join us in Albuquerque for a great weekend of fun! We have panels and presentations (featuring top authors, artists, and scientists), a costume contest, art show, dealer’s room, Green Slime Awards, charity auctions, fan programming, and much more!

Mur LaffertyCo-Guest of Honor
Mur Lafferty

Sci-Fi/Fantasy AuthorChaos Terminal, Six Wakes, Station Eternity, Ghost Train To New Orleans, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Afterlife Series, The Ophelia Network and more; Podcast: I Should Be Writing.
murverse.com

TJ KluneCo-Guest of Honor
TJ Klune                 

Sci-Fi/Fantasy AuthorIn the Lives of Puppets, The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, The Extraordinaries, The Bones Beneath My Skin, Wolfsong, and more.
tjklunebooks.com

Ursula Vernon &Toastmaster Duo
Ursula Vernon & Kevin Sonney

Vernon (Also writing as T. Kingfisher): Author & ArtistNettle & Bone, A Sorceress Comes To Call, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, The Twisted Ones, Castle Hangnail, Dragonbreath, and more.
redwombatstudio.com

Sonney: Podcaster Technology professional, Media producer, Nonfiction Author, Chicken Keeper.
productivityalchemy.com

Dale Ray DeForestGuest Artist
Dale Ray DeForest                 

Comic Artist & IllustratorCover Art for Race to the Sun;  Comic Books – Hero-Twins, Thunderous, The Powwow Mystery Series; Art “with an Indigenous twist”
daledeforest.com

To Be NamedScience Speaker
To Be Named In Summer

Credits/Bio To Be Posted Once Person Is Chosen
websitetocome

2024 Con Theme: FANTASY WILDLIFE & ANIMAL COMPANIONS (Dragons and Unicorns and Griffins, Oh My)…

It’s not just Beastmaster who has furry friends. And talk about the popularity of dragons…  Some fantasy species are the creation of individual authors, but a great number come from longstanding folklore and may have appeared in fantasy stories for generations!  Here are examples:
BOOKS:  Smaug in The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon, The Ice Dragon by George RR Martin, Beastmaster by Andre Norton, Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey, The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle, Treecat Wars: Star Kingdom Book 3 by David Weber & Jane Lindskold, The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison, Gleep in MythAdventures by Robert Asprin, The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit, Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey, “Unicorn Variation” by Roger Zelazny, “The Reluctant Dragon” by Kenneth Grahame, Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik,The Dragon and the Unicorn by A.A. Attanasio,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy, Apprentice Adept by Piers Anthony, The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson, To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey, Inferno by Dante, The Book of Beasts by T.H. White, The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, “Jackalope Wives” by Ursula Vernon, and more…
MOVIES/TV SHOWS:  Dragonheart, Battlestar Galactica “The Young Lords,” The Last Unicorn, Pete’s Dragon, Dragonslayer, My Little Pony’s Twilight Sparkle & Rarity, Fantasia, Legend, Reign of Fire, Captain Marvel‘s Flerkens, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, How To Train Your Dragon, Chupacabra vs. the Alamo, Clash of the Titans, Q, Jason and the Argonauts, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Minotaur, The Golem, Stardust, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Charlie the Unicorn, and more…
MUSIC:  “Godzilla” by Blue Oyster Cult, “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon, “Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne, “Circle of Cysquatch” by Mastodon, “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” by David Bowie, “Ogre Battle” by Queen, “The Thing That Should Not Be” by Metallica, “The Battle of Evermore” by Led Zeppelin, “The Monster is Loose” by Meatloaf, “The Purple People Eater” by Sheb Wooley, “Furry, Happy Monsters” by REM (done for Sesame Street), “Direwolf” by The Grateful Dead, “Banshee Under My Bed” by The Fenians, “The Creature From The Black Lagoon” by Dave Edmunds, “Puff the Magic Dragon” by Peter, Paul and Mary, “The Unicorn” by The Irish Rovers, “Dragon Attack” by Queen, “Pet Semetary” by The Ramones, and probably more…

Announcements

WEEKEND PASSES NOW ON SALE (as of Tues, Jan 16)!  A hotel contract has been signed with the ABQ Marriott Uptown, Louisiana Blvd NE at I-40.  Sleeping rooms will be $149.00 per night (same as last year).  More info coming in the next several months…

DEALER APPLICATIONS WILL BE Available in the Last Third of April 2024.  There will be announcements when the Google Form Application goes live.  Please be patient until then…

BUBONICON 56 SPECIAL GUESTS NOMINATIONS take place 7:30 pm Friday, March 22, in the Activity Room of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church.  You need not be a member of the ABQ SF Society to attend and nominate Special Guests you would like to have here in August 2025.  You can even send in nominations by email to bubonicon(at)gmail(dot)com by March 19, but you must be present to actually vote.  www.bubonicon.com/calendar/event/bcon-56-special-guests

SCI FI & SCI FACT: TWO WORLDS COLLIDE, an exhibit in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor of the New Mexico State Capitol (“the Roundhouse”), runs through April 29. It was created by the New Mexico Museum of Space History, and highlights “how the realms of science fiction and science fact overlap and help create our modern world.”  Open 7:30 am-5:30 pm Monday-Friday (closed Saturday & Sunday), 411 S Capitol St, Santa Fe, NM.

AT THE GUILD CINEMA:  We encourage everyone to support our local independent cinema by attending (masks welcome) or by going to www.guildcinema.com to check out movies you can stream at home, with a percentage of the fee going to support our fave theater!
   Coming Up At The Guild Cinema:  William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill March 22-25, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World March 22, Impulse March 23, American Fiction March 29-31, Foxy Brown March 29, A Time Machine Story March 30, Day of the Dead March 30, Mars Attacks! April 6, Pieces April 12, and “probably” Dawn of the Dead April 13…

FUTURE B’CON DATES:  Bubonicon 56 will be August 22-24, 2025, as Seattle, WA, officially will host Worldcon 83 August 13-17.  Voting took place at the 2023 China Worldcon.
         Bubonicon 57 should be August 21-23, 2026, as Los Angeles, CA, is unopposed for the Worldcon bid (L.A. is planning on August 27-31, with official voting taking place August 2024 at Worldcon 82 in Glasgow, Scotland).

ALBUQUERQUE SF SOCIETY was featured in a May 5, 2021, UNM Daily Lobo article.  You can read it here: www.dailylobo.com/article/2021/05/abq.

THE 1ST MORGUE & KRYPT HORROR FEST was July 7-9, 2023.  A little smaller than anyone would have hoped, but done very well with friendly vendors and horror celebrities.  Congrats on a well-run, fan-organized convention!  Looks like a 2nd Fest is being planned for September 27-29, 2024, at Isleta Resort & Casino, 11000 Broadway Blvd SE – Details To Come!  www.MorgueandKryptABQ.com.

AWARDS NEWS:  CONGRATS!
+ Congrats to 2024 Nebula Award Finalists with connections to New Mexico and/or Bubonicon: 
Novel: Witch King by Martha Wells (2024 Williamson Lectureship GoH); and Novella: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon).  Winners will be announced at the 2024 Nebula Conference and Awards, to be held June 6-9, in Pasadena, CA.
+ Congrats to 2023 Hugo Award Winners with connections to New Mexico and/or Bubonicon:  Novel: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon); and Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Expanse: “Babylon’s Ashes” written by Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck & Naren ShankarThe 2023 Hugo Awards were presented Saturday, October 21, 2023, at a formal ceremony at the Chengdu, China Worldcon.
+ Congrats to 2023 Locus Award Winners with connections to New Mexico and/or Bubonicon: 
Science Fiction Novel: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.  Horror Novel: What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher.  Novella: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.  Artist: Charles Vess.  Winners were announced June 24, 2023, at the Locus Awards Ceremony in Oakland, CA.

OUR CONDOLENCES to the friends & family — of British author/editor Brian Stableford (Cradle of the Sun, Grainger, The Empire of Fear, Dedalus Mission, Emortality, “The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires”), who died February 24, at the age of 75 years old;  of author Steve Miller (Agent of Change, Carpe Diem, The Tomorrow Log, Crystal Dragon, Loneye, Ghost Ship, Salvage Right, Sword of Orion), who died February 20, at the age of 73 years old;  of British author Christopher Priest (The Prestige, Inverted World, The Separation, The Quiet Woman, The Adjacent, An Infinite Summer, “Palely Loitering”), who died February 2, 2024, at the age of 80 years old;  of actor/linebacker Carl Weathers (Rocky films, The Mandalorian, Predator, Toy Story 4, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Happy Gilmore, The Six Million Dollar Man, Alien Siege), who died February 1, at the age of 76 years old;  of author Howard Waldrop (Night of the Cooters, Them Bones, Horse of a Different Color, Wild Cards, “The Ugly Chickens”), who died January 14, at the age of 77 years old;  of actor/singer David Soul (Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek‘s “The Apple,” I Dream of Jeannie, Salem’s Lot, Circle of Fear, Murder She Wrote, “Don’t Give Up On Us”), who died January 4, at the age of 80 years old;  of horror writer Brian Lumley (Necroscope, The Clock of Dreams, The Morbius Murders, The Return of the Deep Ones, The Last Rite, Demogorgon), who died January 2, at the age of 86 years old;  of author/critic David J. Skal (Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of “Dracula” from Novel to Stage to Screen; The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning; Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre; Antibodies; V Is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to Everything Undead), who died January 1, 2024, at the age of 71 years old;  of author David Drake (Hammer’s Slammers, Lord of the Isles, To Clear Away the Shadows, Monsters of the Earth, Time Safari, The Legions of Fire), who died December 10, 2023, at the age of 78 years old;  of producer & puppeteer Marty Krofft (The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Lost Saucer, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Lidsville), who died November 25 at the age of 86 years old;  and of ABQ resident Frank Williams (father of author Yvonne Coats, Bubonicon volunteer for several years, addiction counselor), who died November 14 at the age of 88 years old.  They all will be missed.

BUBONICON FEEDBACK is always welcome – especially ideas, constructive criticism and what you enjoyed at the most recent convention.  How was Bubonicon 53 (2022) for you?  Send your thoughts to to the Con Chair


2024 PARTICIPANTS are…

We will post info on the Confirmed Participants page as B’con 55 info becomes available!


BENEFICIARIES:

Bubonicon 54 gave away $1,850 to the Williamson Library Special Collection at Eastern NM University, the Roadrunner Food Bank, World Central Kitchen, the American Red Cross of New Mexico, New Mexico PBS, and the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation…
Bubonicon 53 gave away $1,450 to the Williamson Library Special Collection at Eastern NM University, the Roadrunner Food Bank, World Central Kitchen, the American Red Cross of New Mexico, New Mexico PBS, and the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation…
Bubonicon 52: Take Two gave away $240
to the Roadrunner Food Bank, World Central Kitchen, American Red Cross, and New Mexico PBS.  Your financial donations, auction bids & t-shirt purchases made these donations possible…
Bubonicon 2020 gave away $725 to the Roadrunner Food Bank, Meals on Wheels America, No Kid Hungry, World Central Kitchen, American Red Cross, Direct Relief, Feeding America, KRQE’s Masks for Kids, NAACP Empowerment Programs, and Gavi: the Vaccine Alliance to help feed people, advocate for them, and assist medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.  We also made donations to New Mexico PBS and the Locus Science Fiction Foundation.
Bubonicon 51 gave away $1,650 to the Williamson Library Special Collection at Eastern NM University, the Roadrunner Food Bank, the Albuquerque Public Library Foundation, New Mexico PBS, and the Red Cross of New Mexico…

Bubonicon 2024 Location & Hotel is

The Albuquerque Marriott Uptown
2101 Louisiana Blvd NE (Louisiana & I-40)
Albuquerque, NM 87110


Bubonicon 52: Take Two was Virtual on August 20-21, 2021

Here’s the 2021 Schedule for Friday evening and all-day Saturday.  Videos still are on Facebook and on Bubonicon’s YouTube.  And you can support our artists on their websites, listed on our Art Show page.


Buboni-Virtual Con 2020was Sat, Aug 29th, 2020

Here is the 2020 Schedule for the 9 1/2 hours of events we did in the first year of the pandemic.  Videos are on our Facebook page and on Bubonicon’s YouTube.

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Albuquerque, NM 87108
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