Continuum 3: creatures natural
and unnatural was held at the Hilton on the Park Hotel
and Conference Centre in East Melbourne over the Queen's Birthday
long weekend of June 2003. Our Guests of Honour were Neil
Gaiman, Poppy
Z Brite, Richard
Harland and Robin
Hobb, with James "Jocko" Allen as Fan Guest. In addition,
the convention also played host to the HarperCollins Voyager
10th Anniversary
Celebrations with many Australian Voyager authors and editors in
attendance.
David Witteveen
(right) wins
1st Place for Flash Fiction in
the inaugural AHWA
Awards
Our fabulously unnatural
creatures,
courtesy of Scott Pollard
The secret of Neil's
success:
everything's dictated by Dalek!
"I
love the opportunity to meet readers so I'm always happy when someone
stops me to talk or we're on a panel that really opens up some great
dialogue to fascinating questions. And I always get a buzz from
being amongst fellow authors — I always come away from a convention
feeling energised and freshly motivated about the genre."
A glass of wine and
a Neil Gaiman
book. What more does a gal need?
Robin Hobb finds a new
friend
at the Closing Ceremony
"...
it's the social side of conventions that makes them fun. Having
a chance to catch up with friends you usually only meet in cyberspace
is fantastic. I have just returned from Continuum 3 in Melbourne,
which was awesome for so many reasons. I'm still recovering!"
Continuum 4 is convened under the auspices of Continuum Foundation
Inc.and is governed by its rules and regulations. Continuum Foundation
Inc. is a not for profit association incorporated under the Victorian
Associations Act, 1994.