Last weekend the 2007 International SF/Fantasy Conference was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. This conference was sponsored by the periodical Science Fiction World. Science Fiction World was first published in 1979. It once won the World Science Fiction Award for Best Periodical. It has now has a circulation of over 300,000 and is the most influential sci-fi magazine in China and is the largest circulation genre magazine in the world.
Next weekend the 2007 Worldcon will be held in Yokohama, Japan. This will be the first Worldcon held in Japan, the first in Asia for that matter. The guests of honor are Sakyo Komatsu, David Brin, Takumi Shibano, Yoshitaka Amano, and Michael Whelan. A unique aspect of this Worldcon is that it will be combined with the Japan National SF Convention.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment