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OryCon

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Active

Location(s)
  
Portland, Oregon

Inaugurated
  
1979

Genre
  
Science fiction

Country
  
United States


Orycon is Portland, Oregon's annual science fiction/fantasy convention, held in November since 1979.

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Event history

The one-day Symposium in 1978 was held at Portland State University. OryCon was held at the Lloyd Center Sheraton in 1979, at the Portland Hilton 1980-83 and 1985, at the Portland Cosmopolitan Hotel in 1984, at the Red Lion/Lloyd Center (formerly the Lloyd Center Sheraton) in 1986, at the Red Lion/Doubletree Columbia River Hotel from 1987 to 2003, at the Marriott (waterfront downtown) from 2003 to 2008, at the Red Lion/Lloyd Center beginning 2009.

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, as well as numerous filk sessions and concerts. Some of the recent panel 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

    • The Susan C Petrey Scholarship Fund Auction awards scholarships to the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop (both in the East and West)

    The Endeavour Award

    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.

    Finalists for 2012
  • Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (Tor)
  • City of Ruins by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pyr)
  • River Marked by Patricia Briggs (Ace)
  • Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday)
  • When the Saints by Dave Duncan (Tor)
    • 2011 Winner
  • Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

    • References

    OryCon Wikipedia
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