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Easter weekend is fast approaching and it looks like it'll be a (long) weekend of science fiction spectacle, from Stories of the Smoke to EasterCon to Gail Carriger's Steampunk Soiree.

The fun starts early with the launch of Stories of the Smoke and Fire on Wednesday night at the Betsey Trotwood pub. After speaking to the pub, we've added a few more tickets - so if you missed out, please check the site again. We'd love to have you join us for readings, an auction for our friends at English PEN and general Dickensian mayhem. There will be walruses.

The weekend itself is dominated by EasterCon. For those that have never been, EasterCon is the UK's semi-nomadic, semi-erudite, largely-literary annual convention. This year it is back at the outskirts of Heathrow and boasts guests like George RR Martin, Tricia Sullivan, Cory Doctorow and Paul Cornell (plus, if you leer at the attendee list, you're looking at a who's who of British SF). 

We'll do a post closer to the time, but we'll be lurking around from Friday to late Sunday night, including the BSFA Awards. We'll have a really big bag for the trophy, so in the slim chance we don't win (cough), we can drown our sorrows in the dealer room.