8Squared: Full Schedule

EightSquared is the 2013 UK National Science Fiction Convention in Bradford - 29th March to 1st April.

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2:00pm GMT

GoH Item - Anne Sudworth

Guest of Honour Anne Sudworth talks about her paintings.

Guests

Anne Sudworth

Anne Sudworth is internationally known for her magical trees and haunting moonlit landscapes. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood and started her career as a professional artist in 1993. Anne has since exhibited widely and her work can now be found in many collections... Read More →

Saturday March 30, 2013 2:00pm - 3:30pm GMT
1 - Main Programme Cedar Court

GoH item

3:30pm GMT

GoH item - Freda Warrington

Guest of Honour Freda Warrington is interviewed by Anne Wilson.

Speakers

Anne Wilson

Guests

Freda Warrington

Freda Warrington is the author of Elfland, Midsummer Night and A Taste Of Blood Wine among other fantasy novels and has just completed her twentieth book, Grail Of The Summer Stars for Tor (US). She has spent most of her life in Leicestershire, where a love of the ancient... Read More →

Saturday March 30, 2013 3:30pm - 5:00pm GMT
1 - Main Programme Cedar Court

GoH item

2:00pm BST

GoH Item - Edward James

Guest of Honour Edward James is interviewed by Kari Sperring.

Speakers

Kari Sperring

Membership secretary for EightSquared, fan, writer, historian.

Guests

Edward James

Edward James is well-known for his discussion and critical appraisal of science fiction, through his time as editor of Foundation, as author of Science Fiction In The Twentieth Century and (with Farah Mendlesohn) A Short History of Fantasy, and as an editor of The Cambridge Companion... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2013 2:00pm - 3:30pm BST
1 - Main Programme Cedar Court

GoH item

3:30pm BST

GoH Item - Walter Jon Williams

Guest of Honour Walter Jon Williams is interviewed by Roz Kaveney.

Speakers

Roz Kaveney

Juliet McKenna

Author

I'm a professional writer of fantasy novels and short stories, with the occasional foray into science-fiction and darker fantasy. So far my work's been translated into 13 languages. My first novel, The Thief's Gamble, was published in January 1999, first of The Tales of Einarinn... Read More →

Guests

Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams began publishing SF in the mid-1980s with Knight Moves, Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind. Since then books such as Aristoi, Metropolitan, City On Fire and Implied Spaces have been highly praised, and many of his novels and short stories have featured... Read More →

Sunday March 31, 2013 3:30pm - 5:00pm BST
1 - Main Programme Cedar Court

GoH item

9:00pm BST

UPDATE - GoH Signing

NEW ITEM: An additional opportunity to get items signed by our Author and Artist Guests of Honour.

Guests

12:00pm BST

Anne Sudworth Interview

Guest of Honour Anne Sudworth is interviewed by Juliet McKenna.
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Speakers

Juliet McKenna

Author

Anna Raftery

Monday April 1, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm BST
1 - Main Programme Cedar Court

GoH item