PRESS RELEASE #24 - Interaction Mails Progress Report #3

GLASGOW, Monday 13 December 2004

Hugo Award Nominating Ballot Released - Booking Open for Dealers' Room and Art Show - Accommodation Update - Party Booking Process Confirmed - New Merchandise Available - Souvenir Book Limited Edition Confirmed

Interaction, the 2005 Worldcon, released its third full Progress Report on 13 December 2004. This is the third of four Progress Reports that Interaction will produce in the run-up to the convention.

Progress Report 3 (PR3) includes a wide range of articles and information, the highlight being the nominating ballot for the 2005 Hugo Awards. The nomination process will be open to all members of Interaction who join the convention prior to 31 January 2005 as well as to members of Noreascon 4, the 2004 Worldcon. The closing date for the nominating ballot is 11 March 2005, with the nominees expected to be announced a few weeks later.

Other features in PR3 include an extended report on Interaction's activities at Noreascon 4, which was held in Boston in September of this year, and a range of pieces relating to travel and tourism. The centrepiece of the tourist material is a personal perspective on Scotland by Jane Yolen, one of Interaction's Guests of Honour.

PR3 also includes a full range of updates from around the convention, covering topics as diverse as Accommodation, Programme, Party Planning, Dealers' Room, Art Show, Masquerade and Merchandise. Finally, PR3 includes "Interjection", the third and final in a series of fanzines by the Plokta Cabal who will be running the Interaction fan lounge and fan programming.

The cover of PR3 is the third in a series of four to be designed by Hugo award winning artist Jim Burns, and inspired by the convention's riverside location and Glasgow's maritime history.

US members' copies have been mailed by standard (bulk) mail. Most non-US members' copies have been mailed by International Surface Air Lift (ISAL) mail. A small number of copies, mostly to countries that do not participate in the ISAL program, have been sent by ordinary air mail. Copies of PR3 are expected to arrive with members by mid-January 2005.

ENDS

Contacts

General: info@interaction.worldcon.org.uk
Press/Media: David Stewart - press@interaction.worldcon.org.uk

The 2005 World Science Fiction Convention, known as Interaction, will take place in Glasgow, UK from 4-8 August 2005. More information about Interaction, including current membership rates, is available from its web site (http://www.interaction.worldcon.org.uk/) or by writing to info@interaction.worldcon.org.uk.

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Release Date 13^th December 2004