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• Octocon 2025

  • Start
    10/10/2025
  • End
    12/10/2025
  • Location
    Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, Dublin D24 XC9W, Ireland 10-11 October; online only on 12 October

  Octocon is the annual Irish National SF Convention.

  For more details, including access information, see the Octocon 2025 website.

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• Luncon/Swecon 2025

  • Start
    10/10/2025
  • End
    12/10/2025
  • Location
    City Hall, Lund, Sweden

  Luncon/Swecon is the annual Swedish National SF Con.

  For more details, please see the Luncon 2025 website.

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• Birmingham SF Group Meet Up

  • When
    10/10/2025
  •  
    19:45 - 22:00
  • Location
    Friends of the Earth Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Central Birmingham, B5 5TH or online via Zoom

  Founded in 1971, meeting monthly and still going strong, the Birmingham SF Group is a non-profit-making organisation that provides an informal atmosphere in which SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field. October's meeting is with author Jaime Fenn.

  Access: No access information is available, please contact the organisers.
  

  There is a charge for this event. For more details, visit the BSFG website.

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• Irish Discworld Con 2025

  • Start
    17/10/2025
  • End
    20/10/2025
  • Location
    Cork International Airport Hotel, Cork T12 H516, Ireland

  Irish Discworld Con is a gathering of fans of the work of the wonderful Sir Terry Pratchett held in Ireland every two years. 

  For more details, please see the Irish Discworld Con website.

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• Butser Book Festival 2025

  • Start
    18/10/2025
  • End
    19/10/2025
  • Location
    Butser Ancient Farm, near Petersfield, Hants, PO8 0BG

  Two days of autumnal creativity, entertainment and inspiration with bestselling writers! This book festival celebrates words, worldbuilding and the wilderness that inspires us, welcoming in the autumn with literary talks covering a range of writing genres, live poetry readings and folk music, local craftsfolk, storytelling, fun activities for all the family, in-depth writing workshops, and book signings, all set against the ancient backdrop of Butser Ancient Farm.

  For more details please see the Butser Ancient Farm website.

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• New Scientist Live

  • Start
    18/10/2025
  • End
    20/10/2025
  • Location
    Excel Centre Docklands, London E16 1XL

  This is a major, annual, UK science and technology event, well worth attending.

  For more details, please see the New Scientist Live website.

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• Festival of Fantastic Films

  • Start
    24/10/2025
  • End
    26/10/2025
  • Location
    Pendulum Hotel, Manchester M1 3BB

  The annual, major, SFFH-related, film festival. 

  For more details please see the Festival of Fantastic Films website.

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• BristolCon 2025

  • Start
    25/10/2025
  • End
    26/10/2025
  • Location
    DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Redcliffe Way, Bristol BS1 6NJ

  BristolCon is a super friendly event and all are welcome. This year’s BristolCon Guests of Honour are John Higgins, J E Hannaford and Ben Jeapes. This year is another two day event. It falls a week before World Fantasy Con, so if you are coming over for that, why not do both?

  Access: The DoubleTree at Redcliffe Way has good accessibility with elevators to all floors, and rooms available at the hotel.

  For more details please see the BristolCon website.

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• World Fantasy Convention 2025 and FantasyCon 2025

  • Start
    30/10/2025
  • End
    02/11/2025
  • Location
    Brighton Hilton Metropole, Brighton, BN1 2FU, UK

  The  World Fantasy Convention is an annual gathering to celebrate Fantasy and Horror. It brings together professionals working within the genres, particularly within the fields of literature and art. 2025’s event also includes Fantasycon, the UK’s annual fantasy and horror convention run by the British Fantasy Society.

  Both welcome authors, editors, artists, poets, publishers, agents, critics, reviewers and bloggers, academics, script and games writers, podcasters and readers. Anyone who is involved in the industry and all those who love fantasy and horror are welcome.

  This event will include the award ceremonies for both the British Fantasy Awards and the World Fantasy Awards.

  This year the convention falls the week after BristolCon and the week before Novacon if you want to make more of your visit!

  For more details see the World Fantasy Con website.

  
  

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• Queer Fantasy at the British Library

  • When
    30/10/2025
  •  
    19:00 - 20:30
  • Location
    Pigott Theatre, British Library, London NW1 2DB, or online.

  An evening with Juno Dawson, Samantha Shannon, Tasha Suri and TJ Klune. Tickets tend to sell out fast for these events!

  For more details see the British Library website.

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• HSFCon

  • Start
    01/11/2025
  • End
    02/11/2025
  • Location
    Luxe Hotel, 4 Sterren Maastricht, Netherlands

  HSFCon is the annual Netherlands National SF Convention.

  For more details please see the HSFCon website.

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• Novacon 54

  • Start
    07/11/2025
  • End
    09/11/2025
  • Location
    The Palace Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AG

  SFF convention with Guest of Honour Emily Tesh, Hugo Award winner.

  For more details see the Novacon website.

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• Pictcon 1

  • When
    08/11/2025
  •  
    10:00 - 22:00
  • Location
    Salutation Hotel, South St, Perth, PH2 8PH

  A one day science fiction convention with Guest of Honour Francesca T Barbini (Luna Press).  A chance to talk about books, games, films etc.  with an emphasis on Scottish writers.

  For more details and tickets please see the Pictcon 1 Eventbrite page.

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• Douglas Adams - To The Ends of the Earth

  • When
    08/11/2025
  •  
    19:30 - 20:45
  • Location
    Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR

  An evening celebrating Douglas Adams, with David Baddiel, Arvind Ethan David, Lucy Cooke, and Robin Ince.

  For more details, see the How To Academy website.

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• Smofcon 42

  • Start
    05/12/2025
  • End
    07/12/2025
  • Location
    Dieselverkstaden Centre, Marcusplaten 17, S-13154 Nacka, Stockholm, Sweden

  Smofcon is the annual Convention about running Conventions!

  For more details please see the Smofcon 42 website.

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