Jun 26, 2007 - Archived - This is the archive of the I-CON 26 website, it will no longer be updated. For the latest I-CON news, please visit the main I-CON site at http://iconsf.org

Apr 30, 2007 - Indie Movies - The final list of indie movies shown at I-CON26 has been updated, check it out at the films page.

Apr 17, 2007 - AeroSith at I-CON 26 on Youtube - You can find a video of AeroSith performing at I-CON 26 on youtube here. Enjoy!

Apr 3, 2007 - Charity Auction - A video of Spat doing some creative auctioning for charity at I-CON 26 can be found on youtube here. Our charity auction this year benefited Breast Cancer Help, find more info here!

Mar 25, 2007 - I-CON 26 Photo Highlights - A small photo gallery has been added here. It will be updated as frequently as possible. Enjoy the pics!

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My mother's a Gothic novelist, and my father was a part-time conjurer, so I didn't have a hope. I've been a science fiction fan since the age of ten, and started writing seriously about 7 years ago. Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure series was responsible, and I'm still a huge fan of Vance. Other favorites include Ursula Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Mary Gentle, George R R Martin, C J Cherryh, Tanith Lee and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I now write full time, but have had various incarnations. My background is in History and Philosophy of Science: having done degrees in philosophy and artificial intelligence at the universities of Manchester and Sussex, I did a doctorate at Cambridge, graduating in 1993. I did a variety of part-time jobs, including a now-infamous stint on Brighton's pier as a tarot reader, before full time work as administrator for an education program in Kazakhstan. This was not entirely successful and resulted in a partial collapse of the then-Kazakhstani cabinet. I next worked for an educational consultancy in the region and moved out to Kazakhstan in 1996 with my partner Charles. The following years were spent in going back and forth between the region and the UK, but in 2000 the collapse of the post-Soviet economy took our business with it. I spent a year running an IT program at Brighton Women's Center and became a full time writer in 2002

Books:

• The Ghost Sister (2001) - Phillip K. Dick Award nominee
• Empire of Bones (2002) - Phillip K. Dick Award nominee
• The Poison Master (2003)
• Nine Layers of Sky (2003)
• The Banquet of the Lords of Night and other stories (2004)
• Banner of Souls (2004) - Shortlisted for the 20th Arthur C. Clarke Award, Phlip K. Dick Award nominee
• Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel (2005)
• The Demon and the City: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel (2006)
• Darkland (2006)