Apr 12, 2006 - Site Downtime - Some of you may have noticed problems with the I-CON site over the past few days. We have been having hardware issues with our server, which have now been resolved. All site functionality should now be fully restored... if you notice any issues, please email webmaster@iconsf.org. Thank you.

Mar 22, 2006 - Important Travel Update! - The Suffolk County Half Marathon will be taking place this Sunday, resulting in closures on Nichols Road between the Long Island Expressway and Rt. 347. Please use these directions to get to the convention on Sunday.

Mar 22, 2006 - New I-CON Community - ICON Science Fiction, Inc. is proud to announce its new project, community.iconsf.org. Designed to encourage community involvement and the open sharing of ideas and information, community.iconsf.org is our new hub for everyone who is interested in Science Fiction, Fact, and Fantasy (and Gaming, Anime, and everything else you might see at I-CON - and likely a whole lot more!). We encourage you all to stop in, take a look, and speak your mind - this site was created to allow you to immerse yourself further in the things that matter to you (and us).

Mar 22, 2006 - Indie Film Schedule - In addition to the main schedule and gaming schedule linked from our home page, the Indie Film schedule is now online. Also, an HTML (webpage) version of the schedule is coming soon, we thank everyone for their patience.

Mar 21, 2006 - Schedule Coming Soon Posted! - We know that many of you were anxiously awaiting the schedule for I-CON. Well, it's here! Go to the site index and check it out to see everything what I-CON 25 has in store for you!

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Website: http://www.sfwa.org/members/kotani/

Yoji Kondo has a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics, and headed the astrophysics laboratory at the NASA Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab Missions and served since then as director of a NASA satellite observatory at Goddard for 15 years. He has held professorships at several universities including the past one at the University of Pennsylvania and the present one at the Catholic University of America. He served as President of IAU (International Astronomical Union) Commission on Astronomy from Space and also as President of IAU Division on Variable Stars. He has published over 200 scientific articles and has edited or co-edited 13 books on astrophysics and the space program including "Examining the Big Bang", "Space Access and Utilization Beyond 2000", and "Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space Ships". Among the professional honors he has received are the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achieve-ment and the National Space Club Science Award.

Eric Kotani is the pseudonym used by a scientist, (Dr.) Yoji Kondo, for writing science fiction. Kotani has published seven science fiction books: five with John Maddox Roberts ("Act of God", "The Island Worlds", "Between the Stars", "Delta Pavonis", and "Legacy of Prometheus"), and one with Roger MacBride Allen ("Supernova"). His sixth ("Death of A Neutron Star") book is a Star Trek Voyager novel, which was published in 1999 as Number 17 in that series. His seventh novel, "Legacy of Prometheus", was issued from Tor Books in April 2000; the trade-cover edition of this book was published in the fall of 2002. He also edited, as Yoji Kondo, "Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master", which made the National Best Seller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also written "The Edgeworld" in the recent (2000) Tekno Book anthology "Star Colonies", and "Orbital Base Fear" in the forthcoming Tekno Book anthology tentatively called "Space Stations".

He is the recipient of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Award (issued by the New York City Science Fiction Society) this year. An asteroid (#8072) has also been named Yojikondo in recognition of his contributions to astronomy and the space program.

One of his avocations is martial arts. He is a sixth degree black-belt in aikido and is also a sixth degree black-belt in judo. He has been teaching an aikido and judo class at the Columbia Athletic Club in Columbia, Maryland for over two dec-ades.

He has given talks on science and science fiction at such places as the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) symposium in San Francisco.