Membership rates for the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Convention, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth (7 July 1907 in Butler, Missouri), are $150. The convention will be held in Kansas City, MO, 6-8 July. Special guests include Apollo 11 Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, X-Prize Pilot Brian Binnie, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and authors Spider & Jeanne Robinson, John Scalzi, James Gunn, and Robin Wayne Bailey. For more information, see http://heinleincentennial.com.
Membership rates for Archon, the 2007 NASFiC, to be held 2-5 August in St. Louis, MO, are $120 (adult), $75 (young adult), $65 (child), and $35 (supporting); deadline for advance memberships is 20 July. Guests of Honor include Barbara Hambly, Darryl K. Sweet, Mira Furlan, James Ernest, Elizabeth Covey, Barry & Sally Childs-Helton, Nancy “Cleo” Hathaway, Roger Tener, Vic Milan, and Lani Tupu. For more information, see http://archonstl.org/31/index2.html.
Membership rates for Nippon 2007, the 2007 WorldCon, to be held 30 August-3 September in Yokohama, Japan, are $220/¥26,000 (adult), $165/¥17,000 (young adult), and $80/¥9,000 (child) through 30 June, and $50/¥6,000 for supporting memberships. Guests of Honor include Sakyo Komatsu, David Brin, Takumi Shibano, Yoshitaka Amano, and Michael Whelan. For more information, see http://www.nippon2007.us/.
Membership rates for the 2007 World Fantasy Convention, to be held 1-4 November in Saratoga Springs, New York, are $125 (attending) and $35 (supporting) until 15 June. Guests of Honor include Carol Emshwiller, Kim Newman, Lisa Tutle, Barbara and Christopher Roden, George Scithers, and Guy Gavriel Kay. For more information, see http://www.lastsfa.org/wfc2007/.
Membership rates for the 2008 World Horror Convention, to be held 27-30 March 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, are $120 until 30 June 2007. Guests of Honor include Dennis Etchison, John Jude Palencar, Michael R. Collings, Jeff Strand, and Dave Dinsmore. For more information, see www.whc2008.org.
SFWA’s 2008 Nebula Award Weekend will be held in Austin, Texas, 24-27 April 2008. For more information, see http://www.sfwa.org.
Membership rates for Denvention 3, the 2008 WorldCon, to be held 6-10 August 2008 in Denver, Colorado, are $175 (adult), $40 (child), and $45 (supporting). Free memberships are offered to attendees of Denvention 1 in 1941. Guests of Honor include Lois McMaster Bujold, Rick Sternbach, Tom Whitmore, and Wil McCarthy. For more information, see http://www.denvention3.org.
The 2008 World Fantasy Convention will be held 30 October-3 November 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Membership rates are US$100/C$115/£51 (adult) and US$35/C$37.50/£17 (supporting). Guests of Honor include David Morrell, Barbara Hambly, Tom Doherty, Tad Williams, and Todd Lockwood. For more information, see http://www.worldfantasy.org.
Anticipation is a 2009 WorldCon bid for 6-10 August in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pre-supporting membership is $20/C$25 (pre-opposing: $25/C$30; “bon ami” $100/C$125). For more information, see http://www.anticipationsf.ca.
Kansas City in 2009 is a WorldCon bid for 3-7 September. Pre-supporting membership is $20 (pre-opposing: $25; Friend of the Library: $50; Patron: $100). For more information, see http://www.midamericon.org/kc2009.
Australia in 2010 is a WorldCon bid that doesn’t yet have specific dates. Pre-supporting membership is $20. For more information, see http://www.australia2010.org.
Seattle 2011 is a WorldCon bid for August 2011 in Seattle, Washington. Pre-supporting membership is $25 (pre-opposing: $50; Friend of the Bid: $100). For more information, see http://seattle2011.swoc.org.