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Guest of Honour: Marie Bilodeau

Marie Simonne Bilodeau

CAN•CON 2010 is very pleased to have Author and Storyteller Marie Bilodeau as our Guest of Honour. Marie was born in Montreal (Canada) to a family with nomadic tendencies. As a result her childhood was spent roaming from town to town in Eastern Ontario. In 1996 she roamed further west in the province, attending Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Along with earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Religion and Culture with a minor in...

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Special Guest: Larry Stewart

Larry Stewart is an Ottawa based illustrator, calligrapher, illuminator, lecturer, writer, and entertainer. He worked for the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board for fifteen years, providing many of the illustrations used in their curriculum. These illustrations ran the full spectrum from detailed diagrams of experiments used in science units to cartoons that humourously drive home critical points. These were well received by teachers and students alike. In other fields, he has illustrated books in the Science Fiction field, notably for Robert J....

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Additional Guest: Karen Dales

Please note: Due to person reasons, Karen Dales will not able to attend CAN-CON 2010, but hopes to make it next year. Karen Dales is the author of The Chosen Chronicles which includes Changeling:...

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Additional Guest: Jean-Louis Trudel

Born in Toronto, Jean-Louis Trudel holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and the history and philosophy of science. Since 1994, he has authored (alone or in collaboration with Yves Meynard as Laurent McAllister) a trio of novels published in France, four...

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Additional Guest: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson is a Canadian SF and fantasy writer whose works have appeared in places such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Fantasy Magazine. His novel Fall From Earth was released in 2009...

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Additional Guest: Hayden Trenholm

Hayden Trenholm’s short fiction has appeared in On Spec, TransVersions, Tesseracts6, Neo-Opsis, Challenging Destiny, Talebones, Gaslight Grotesque, and on CBC radio. In 2008, after a record fourth consecutive short fiction nomination, he won the...

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Additional Guest: Eric Choi

Eric Choi was the first recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award for his novelette “Dedication”, which was subsequently published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. His other short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Footprints (Hadley Rille), Northwest Passages (Windstorm),...

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Special Events

Friday Night at the Movies: M-THEORY (10-11 PM) Join writer-director Lloyd Deane and actor Janet Hetherington (Mrs. Dillworth) at a special Can-Con screening of the short SF film M-THEORY! A hit at the Wreck-Beach Film Festival,...

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Additional Guest: R. A. Scully

My name is Rodney Allan Scully, I was born in the picturesque northern community of Wawa Ontario Canada, near the shores of beautiful Lake Superior. I am happily married to my highschool sweetheart and am a proud...

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Room Reservations

Please book directly with the hotel using their toll free number: 800-578-7878 (or 613-722-7600 if you're calling from outside Canada or the USA). Please mention group code "C A N C" to get our group rate of $105 (Cdn) per...

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Facilities & Amenities

The hotel has the following facilities/amenities: 3 Diamond CAA/AAA Approved Property Free High Speed Internet Access Full Service Restaurant and Lounge Business Services "Wet & Wild" Water Park featuring a Wave Pool, 150 ft Waterslide, Hot Tub Fully Equipped Fitness Room (onsite) Valet Dry-cleaning Service Complimentary Onsite Parking Mini...

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About CAN•CON

CAN•CON is a celebration of Canada's numerous and ongoing contributions to the genres of science-fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, utopian and dystopian fiction, and speculative horror... It's an entertaining and informative blend of Canada's finest! 100% volunteer-run and entirely not-for-profit, CAN•CON...

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Schedule

CAN•CON's Registration Table will "open" at 5PM on Friday and programming will officially start at 5PM on Friday and run through until Sunday at two pm. There will be a 24 hour Hospitality Suite for the entire weekend, so there...

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