13 Mar READING AT BORDERS, Oxford St, London. Top floor, 6:30pm. With Pat Cadigan, Neal Asher, and `a special surprise guest'.
18 Mar [] ENLARGED (informal Sproutlore/beer/Rankin event), The Flying Swan aka The Alexandra Hotel, 203 Siddals Rd, Derby. Free. Also pub crawl on Fri 17 Mar. Contact deepblack23 at hotmail dot com.
ICFA-27 (Mar 15-19 '06) Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel, Ft. Lauderdale FL. Theme: Drawn by the Fantastic: Comics, Graphic Novels, Art, and Literature. GoH: Charles Vess. Guest Scholar: M. Thomas Inge. Special Guest Writer: Kathleen Ann Goonan. Permanent Special Guest: Brian Aldiss. Memb: $135. Info: Katy Hatfield, ICFA Registrar, Box 50517, Eugene OR 97405; website: www.iafa.org
FANTASCICON 2006 (Mar 17-19 '06) Comfort Inn, Chattanooga TN. Guests: P.M. Griffin, Julia Morgan Scott, Jana Oliver, R.D. Hammond, Walter M. Rice, Ernest Saylor, Rob Shelsky. Memb: $45. Info: FantaSciCon, c/o L. D. Stacy, 395 Stancil Rd., Rossville GA 30741; email: fantascicon@vei.net; website: www.fantascicon.com/
LUNACON (Mar 17-19 '06) Hilton Hasbrouck Heights / Meadowlands, Hasbrouck Heights NJ. GoH: Jim Butcher. AGoH: David B. Mattingly. FGoH: Byron Connell. Costumer GoH: Lisa Ashton. Memb: $50. Info: Lunacon 2006, PMB 234, 847A Second Ave., New York NY 10017-2945; email: info@lunacon.org; website: www.lunacon.org/lunacon2006/