#laconv — Public Fediverse posts

Want to get a chance to see the Hugos without worrying about your kid? Avoid the “I get to see the Masquerade this year, and you get to babysit this time” conversation. Childcare, provided by KiddieCorp, a company with years of experience, will be provided at #LAconV, costing $12/child/hour.

We are so excited to tell you that Wil Wheaton will be a Featured Guest at #LAconV!

Wil Wheaton loves telling stories. He's been doing it his whole life. Actor, writer, narrator, and champion of geek culture there is no doubt of Wheaton's love of all things SFF.

He is the co-creator, producer, and host of TableTop, which helped spark a resurgence of interest in modern tabletop gaming.

I'm going to Worldcon! LAcon V has invited me to be among the panelists discussing all sorts of fascinating things, The details of my panel schedule are on my website if you're curious. I'd love to get your thoughts as I'm preparing copious notes so I can participate in whatever direction the topics take. #Worldcon2026 #LAconV #writing #worldbuilding #economics

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Another Featured Guest for #LAconV is coming your way now!

Greg Morris is president of Scaled Composites. In addition to his leadership role, Morris serves as a Test Pilot for Scaled. Morris joined the company in 2023, having previously supported the Scaled’s flight operations team.

Next week I'm going to be at #LAconV - this year's #Worldcon - and I'm so looking forward to meeting lots of amazing people, talking about the #Dublin2029 Worldcon bid and even being on a few panels. Hopefully see some of you there!

We're excited to have this next Featured Guest with us at #LAconV!

Bridget Duffy is from southern California and a lifelong artist who has painted sci-fi themes throughout a 46 year career in entertainment as a union scenic artist in Local 800 Art Directors Guild for 46 years, and in her private artwork.

In case you missed it, the #LAconV Discord is now open for Attending, Virtual, or One-Day Members of the con!

Why join the LAcon V Discord? You can find out about things like pre-con activities, hang out virtually with fellow members before and during the con, access virtual safer spaces, and get assistance for both in-person and virtual needs.

Due to personal circumstances Charlaine Harris is no longer able to attend #LAconV. We know this is disappointing news but are sure you join with us in wishing her and her family all good wishes.

We have another great Featured Guest joining us for #LAconV, virtually!

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer and founder of: The Midnight Run (an arts-filled, night-time, urban walking experience.), The Rhythm and Poetry Party (The R.A.P Party) which celebrates live literature and music, and Poetry + Film / Hack (P+F/H) which celebrates poetry and film.

Another Featured Guest, Ariela Housman, will be with us at #LAconV very soon!

Ariela (she/her) is an artist, calligrapher, and three-time Finalist for the Fan Artist Hugo. She runs on tea and uses floofy skirts to disguise enormous pockets.

The #LAconV Discord is now open for Attending, Virtual, or One-Day Members of the con!

Why join the LAcon V Discord? You can find out about things like pre-con activities, hang out virtually with fellow members before and during the con, access virtual safer spaces, and get assistance for both in-person and virtual needs.

@neve
I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com

See me talk about SF/F, RHPS, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on FB & Youtube.

Next is LACon V (Worldcon). My panels:
Movies of 1976
Ethics of a Time War
How Xena Changed the World
Forensics for SF/Mystery Writers

And I'm still on social media.

#writephant #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting #alternatehistory #writersofmastodon #ConTinual #supernatural #comics #ZNB #LAconV

Yes, Kat Kourbeti will be joining us at #LAconV virtually this year!

She is a queer Greek/Serbian speculative fiction writer, culture critic, narrator and podcaster based in London, UK. She is a Hugo and British Fantasy Award-winning Senior Podcast Editor at Strange Horizons magazine, hosts The Write Song Podcast, and writes about SFF arts and theatre for the BSFA. She also organises Spectrum Writers, London's longest running SFFH critique and community group, while her day job is in theatre.

Sarah Rees Brennan will be at #LAconV with us!

She was born in Ireland by the sea. In a previous life she was a New York Times bestselling, Lodestar finalist, Carnegie nominated writer of YA fiction. Her first work of adult fantasy, the portal fantasy LONG LIVE EVIL, was on the New York Times 2024 Best of Fantasy as a ‘careening meta-fantasy delight,’ was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and a USA Today bestseller, and a Locus finalist. She’s written tie-ins for Netflix, Disney and Marvel.

WE WANT YOU!

The countdown has started! In just a week and a half, #LAconV aka the 84th World Science Fiction Convention will begin, and Limitless Telepresence will be there.
Miniature rovers will be there to invite you to drive from the Moon to Mars. There will be contests, awards, and gift certificates for the “best of the best” rover drivers (and some randomly lucky ones) if you dare try your hand at the remote controls.

Artist Joy Alyssa Day will be a Featured Guest at #LAconV!

She is a professional artist, working mostly in blown and carved glass. Creating smaller sculptures like her Solar System Christmas Ornaments, to giant lobby sculptures, her work is collected worldwide.

Joy had the honor of creating the Hugo Award Base for 2025 and 2014. She is also a master level, award winning costume designer.

In her copious free time, she runs a little kitty rescue sanctuary in upstate New York.

Akua Lezli Hope will be joining us virtually as a Featured Guest at #LAconV!

She is a Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry (SFPA), multi-award-winning creator, & paraplegic wisdom seeker whose work explores consciousness & communication across distance & difference. In print since 1974, she has published more than 600 poems. Her collections include Embouchure: Poems on Jazz and Other Musics (Writer’s Digest Book Award), Them Gone, & Otherwheres (Elgin Award).

Theodora Goss is another Featured Participant you can look forward to meeting at #LAconV!

She is the World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award-winning author of the Athena Club trilogy of novels, including The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl.

It’s a day late, and John’s going to bed now. Goodnight everyone. Zzzzzzzzzzz https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/166-writings-of-greeks-and-romans/

#ScienceFiction #Podcast #Worldcon #LAconV #WSFS #Octocon

Jessie Peterson @quothalinguist.bsky.social is another one of our Featured Guests at #LAconV!

She has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a professor of linguistics for 13 years. She is now a full-time professional conlanger and works with her husband, David Peterson. Her work appears in a number of TV shows and films, including Warner Brothers’ Superman, Pixar’s Elemental, Legendary’s Dune: Part Two, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone.

Very pleased to announce that Daryl Gregory will be a featured guest at #LAconV!

Gregory is a Seattle writer whose novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Crawford awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, and other awards. His latest novel is When We Were Real (2025). His seven other novels include Revelator, Spoonbenders, and Pandemonium.

Are you as excited to ask Isabel J. Kim about her novel Sublimation as we are? So glad she's a featured program participant at #LAconV!

Kim is a speculative fiction author who lives near New York City in an apartment filled with books and swords. Her short fiction has won the Nebula, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards, was a finalist for the Hugo and Sturgeon Awards, and she has previously been a finalist for the Astounding Award.

Thrilled to tell you that Corry L. Lee will be a featured program participant at #LAconV!

Author, Ph.D. physicist, data geek. Corry’s Russian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with Weave the Lightning (Solaris), concluded in April 2026: lightning mages navigate romance, torn loyalties, and dangerous magic while fomenting rebellion against the fascist state. Corry won the Writers of the Future Award & multiple teaching awards.

Volunteers needed for the organization of religious observances at #LAconV!

Worldcons often facilitate public religious observances, and LAcon V plans to do so as well. If you are a member of an organized faith and wish to coordinate one of these layperson-led observances during the convention, please contact [email protected] to let us know as soon as possible.

We're very pleased to welcome Neil Clarke (https://mastodon.online/@clarkesworld) as a featured participant at #LAconV.

He is the multi-award-winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine and over a dozen anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. He is a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for Best Editor Short Form, four-time winner of the Chesley Award for Best Art Director, and two-time winner of the Locus Award for Best Editor.

A bibliovore of diverse and profound interests, Arturo Serrano (https://ohai.social/@carturo222) provides insight on every panel he's on. We're thrilled that he's joining us virtually at #LAconV as a featured guest.

Arturo is an Ignyte-winning, Hugo-winning reviewer and editor at the blog Nerds of a Feather, as well as a member of the editorial teams at Strange Horizons and Galactic Journey. He wrote the alternate history novel To Climates Unknown.

Anyone thinking of going to #WorldCon this year, who doesn't have a ticket yet? I now have a spare, selling at a good discount. I need to sell this week, though - before the 13th. #WorldCon2026 #LAConV
Please boost for exposure - not sure anyone's seen this. $100 cheaper than buying a ticket now!

@Priyajsridhar
I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com

See me talk about SF/F, RHPS, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on FB & Youtube.

Next is LACon V (Worldcon). My panels:
Movies of 1976
Ethics of a Time War
How Xena Changed the World
Forensics for SF/Mystery Writers

And I'm still on social media.

#writephant #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting #alternatehistory #writersofmastodon #ConTinual #supernatural #comics #ZNB #LAconV