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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JOHN GRANT (real name Paul Barnett) is the author of over 60 books, of which about one third are novels. His The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters, currently in its third edition, is regarded as the standard work in its field. As co editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy he received the Hugo, the World Fantasy Award and several other international awards. As managing editor of the Clute/Nicholls Encyclopedia of Science Fiction he shared a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award, the first to be given in 17 years. He received his second Hugo in 2004 for The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective (done with Elizabeth Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville).

Under his own name he was until 2003 Commissioning Editor of Paper Tiger, the world's leading publisher of fantasy art books; he received the 2002 Chesley Award for his work with Paper Tiger. He is the US Reviews Editor of Infinity Plus and a Consultant Editor to AAPPL (Artists' and Photographers' Press Ltd).

Recently published major books, all as John Grant, include Discarded Science, Masters of Animation, the "book length fictions" Dragonhenge and The Stardragons (both illustrated by Bob Eggleton, the former shortlisted for a 2003 Hugo Award), the novels The Far Enough Window and The Dragons of Manhattan, and the children's book Life-Size Dragons (illustrated by Fred Gambino). His story collection Take No Prisoners was published in August 2004. The editor of the forthcoming (Fall 2007) anthology New Writings in the Fantastic, he is currently at work on an encyclopaedia of film noir and a story-cycle, Leaving Fortusa, while finishing off the Fall 2007-scheduled non-fiction book Corrupted Science.