OryCon
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| Orycon | |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Location | Portland, Oregon |
| Country |  United States |
| First held | 1979 |
| Official website | |
Orycon is Portland, Oregon's annual science fiction convention, held in November since 1979.
[edit] Highlights
Orycon promotes science fiction and fantasy works of all kinds.
There are many panels and workshops discussing topics from how to write a great science fiction novel to current events in science.
The Endeavour Award is presented to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year.
Susan C Petrey Scholarship Fund Auction, which awards scholarships to the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop (both in the East and West)
- Some of the recent topics have included:
- Writing
- When is enough research too much?
- How to write about something you don't really know about
- Using Your Imagination to Write and Draw
- Inventing Languages: Alien Linguistics
- Balancing Writing with Family/Real Life -- Deadlines vs. diapers
- Current events
- What impact does technology really have on history
- Murdering stemcells and frankenfood: modern biology and the far left and right
- The web in 2015 - a look ahead
- The rest of the world's last year in space/Japanese Space Program. What they've done, what they are doing, what they have planned.
- Costuming
- Making an original costume: What you need to get started
- Fabric manipulation-How to twist, dye, stitch, fold, pleat and otherwise bully your fabric into submission
- Period costumes beyond Victorian and medieval: Why don't we see more eras?
- Costuming 101: Pattern bashing for beginners
- Art
- Art Jam - Everybody Draws
- Selling the Offspring: Your Emotional Investment in Your Art and How Much do You Charge for It?
- The Business of Art
- My inspiration - My art: Why I did what I did
- Gaming
- Gaming is organized by Game Storm (OSFCI's gaming convention)
[edit] 2005 Endeavour Award
- Winner:
- The Child Goddess by Louise Marley
- Finalists:
- Alphabet of Thorn, by Patricia McKillip
- Paradise Passed, by Jerry Oltion
- The Secrets of Jin-Shei, by Alma Alexander
- Two Trains Running, by Lucius Shepard
- Judges
- Allen Steele
- Susan Shwartz
- Nalo Hopkinson
[edit] External links
- Orycon website
- Endeavour Award webpage
- Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI)
- Game Storm website
