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Chicon has begun mailing PR4; it's also available at http://www.chicon.org/progress-reports.php

Highlights of this progress report include the Hugo Award Final Ballot, 2014 Worldcon Site Selection Ballot, and updates from across the convention team.

PR4 also includes feature articles on Artist Guest of Honor Rowena Morrill, Special Guest Sy Liebergot, and Toastmaster John Scalzi, as well as news on Chicon 7's spectacular opening night event at the Adler Planetarium and details on childcare, children's programming, and special exhibits.

Go forth and read! That URL again is http://www.chicon.org/progress-reports.php

Chicon has announced a special Memorial Day Sale for all Adult Attending memberships purchased on Memorial Day, May 28. For 24 hours, Adult Attending membership rates will be lowered by $20, to $195. Anyone joining or upgrading their membership online will automatically receive this special discount.

The offer will also be available to fans buying Chicon 7 memberships at conventions held over the weekend - look out for Chicon 7 representatives at Baycon, Wiscon, and ConQuest.

Things are looking great for Chicon--over 3,000 people have already registered, and we're expecting some 5,000 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the convention itself.

For full Chicon news, to purchase memberships, or for more information, visit http://www.chicon7.org/

Anyone looking for a Chicon Membership? I'm selling mine for the same price I paid for it: $195. That's twenty bucks cheaper than the current going rate.

If you're interested or know someone else who might be please contact me via my website: http://www.stephengaskell.com/contact/ or via twitter: @stvgskll.

Cheers,
Steve

The Hugo Voters' Packet has now been expanded to include the nominees for Best Fan Artist, Best Fan Writer, and Best Professional Editor - Long Form. Go to and download!

Registered and supporting members of Chicon can download the packet with their membership number and Hugo PIN by going to this page.

It's a long shot, but I'd like to travel on a plane with someone coming from and going back to Heathrow via a good British flight (BA and/or Virgin) about a couple days before the con (i.e., arriving tuesday or wednesday) and staying a couple days after (leaving approximately thursday) using jetlag optimization for timing of the flight. I'll wait a week for a reply and, if none, book to go alone.

Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, is pleased to present the 2012 Hugo Voter Packet, an electronic package of nominated works graciously made available to voters by nominees and their publishers.

The first release of the packet is now available (as of May 17, 2012). This release includes all of the fiction categories (Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story and John W. Campbell Award) plus Best Professional Artist.

We will be adding the remaining categories progressively over the next few days.

Note: the Best Fancast nominees are not included in the download files but are already freely available online. We have provided a separate page introducing these nominees and linking to selected examples of their 2011 work.

Registered and supporting members of Chicon can download the packet with their membership number and Hugo PIN by going to this page.

Hi!

My potential hotel-room-sharer is no longer able to come, and so I'm looking for someone to split my room with. It's a two-bed room in the convention hotel, $140.00 a night total, so I'd be looking for somoene who's willing to split the cost. Non-smoker, please, and I warn that I intend to get up early and stay out late (but I'm good at sneaking!).

I am completely okay with strangers. I don't bite!

(Sorry if there's an official Hotel-Room-Sharing-Thread-Or-Page someplace! My search-fu failed me on the main site.)

Chicon 7 is pleased to announce that it has arranged for a special opening night reception for convention members at the Adler Planetarium! On Thursday, August 30, start your Worldcon experience off right with an exclusive chance to view the museum exhibits and watch the Sky Theater show "The Searcher" by Nick Sagan, as well as a (weather-dependent) sky-viewing session on the exterior deck.

For more details, check out the press release at the Chicon website. The full text of the press release is available behind the cut:

( Full Text of Press Release )

Chicon 7 is delighted to offer a BRAND NEW story by our Toastmaster John Scalzi, exclusively available for download to Chicon 7 supporting or attending members. See https://chicon.org/scalzistory.php for details.

Two discount sites I've found helpful in NYC, and which also operate in Chicago are