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Issue 187
March 2008
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NEWS: TTACon 9...As Right As Nine Pins

Held annually
TTA Press
This year's special guests were Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, John & Judith Clute.
The publisher is named after the magazine it founded in 1994, The Third Alternative, which is renowned for its slipstream/horror fiction.

by Ian Whates

InterzoneOn Saturday February 9th, TTA Press hosted their ninth ‘TTACon’. The folks at TTA have stripped convention going down to its bare essentials, dispensing with such unnecessary trimmings as panels, discussions and speeches, instead concentrating on the two basic elements – people and alcohol.



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