The 1893 Exposition & the Curse of Cthulhu

May 30th-June 1st

Hyatt Regency Schaumburg

1800 E Golf Rd, Schaumburg, IL 60173

From the Expo:

The 1893 Exposition displayed several odd artifacts from around the world, but the strangest was a statue best described as a “monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind” . . . 

Panels:

• Inventions of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Friday 8 pm-8:50 pm in Copper
• Reading of The Clockwork Coffin, Saturday 2 pm-2:50 pm in the Tea Room (Cyan)
• What if? Exploring Alternate History in Media, Sunday 12 pm-12:50 pm in in Mahogany 1

2025 SFWA Nebula Awards Conference 

June 5-8th

Kansas City, Missouri

Panel: “Genre Wars: Mashups Instead of Knockouts”

Date: Saturday, June 6

Time: 11am-12pm

* Kelsey Josephson

* Nicola Griffith

* Ray Nayler

Moderator:

* Curtis Chen

Description:

Urban Fantasy is the best genre ever! What are you even talking about? Space Opera forever! Pfft. You're both wrong. Romance holds the largest share of the publishing market for a reason! Whatever. Epic Fantasy all the--STOP! We all have our personal preferences, both as readers and as writers. But what if instead of genre knockouts we explored genre mashups? This panel will explore the rich and vibrant spaces between genres and effective strategies for creating subgenre mashups that are greater than simply the sum of their parts.

Forsaken Beauty and the Etherbeast is August's reading for Temporal Textual Talks, a virtual steampunk book club! More details coming soon.

November 6th-9th

A Full Paranormal Steampunk Adventure into Mythology

1313 John Q Hammons Dr, Middleton, Wisconsin