Balticon
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Balticon is "The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention."
Balticon 41 will be held May 25 - 28, 2007 at Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn in Baltimore, MD.
Guests of honor will be Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Balticon is a long-running, large-scale regional convention with thousands of members, multiple simultaneous panel discussions, a track of science programming, vendors' room, film show, and costume contest. Emphasis is on written fiction, but films/TV are represented well. Substantial oppportunity to meet and speak in small groups (often one-on-one) with professional writers and editors. Quality of panel presentations is usually very high. Writers may wish to focus more on who is on a panel than what it is about. "What Editors Want" will be heavily attended. "Writing Undersea Stories" will be sparsely attended, but the panelists may be worth it.
