matrix: the news and media magazine of the british science fiction association
Issue 187
March 2008
- home
- guest editorial
FEATURES
- best SF movies ever!…1960s
- snatched moments
- year of the gamer - 2007
- i, zombie: a ghoulish icon
- marvel vs dc
- just two men...
- seduction of the innocent 9
- checkpoint
- a 'vision' of the future
REVIEWS
- i am legend
- the golden compass
- cloverfield
- sweeney todd
- southland tales
- in the shadow of the moon
- battlestar galactica - razor
- jumper
NEWS
- arthur c. clarke r.i.p
- world of science
- what controversy?
- reaching number 1
- the air of success
- ttacon 9
- picocon
- one in a million
- fans in orbit
- it's all a question of endings
EVENTS
- eastercon: orbital
- p-con 5
- alt.fiction
- sci-fi london
- fforde ffiesta
- eurocon/roscon
- ...all events
DVD RELEASES
- primeval
- beowulf
- theory of everything
- town called eureka
- the laughing man
- bender's big score
- ...view all
BOOK RELEASES
- myth-understandings
- the reef
- dark blood
- blue war
- deluge
- swiftly
- ...view all
MUSIC RELEASES
- dream theatre
- muse
- omd
- panic at the disco
- the gutter twins
- joy division
- ...view all
ARCHIVE
- more soon...

 

 

NEWS: Fans in Orbit
Orbital 2008, The 2008 Eastercon, 21-24 March 2008
Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, UK

Guests of Honour:
Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, China Miéville & Charles Stross

Fan Guest of Honour: Rog Peyton

by Ian Whates

Tanith LeeThis year’s Eastercon, Orbital, looks set to be the best attended SF convention this country has seen since the Glasgow Worldcon of 2005. As of this evening (Friday 14th March), the membership list boasts 1,254 individuals.



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