Norwescon

Norwescon In the Media

Here you’ll find mentions of Norwescon in the media. Know of any we don’t have listed here? Drop us a line through our contact page!

  • Seattle Times: Science fiction, science are big in Northwest — especially right now (July 1, 2012)

    [Katrina] Marier is the editor of Westwind, the magazine of the Northwest Science Fiction Society. Shawn just finished a multiyear stint as chair of the Northwest’s largest science-fiction convention, Norwescon….

    Thousands were at the annual Norwescon here in April….

    Fandom is very tolerant of differences, she said. At a convention you’ll see someone in a Star Trek uniform walking down the hallway with ladies in ball gowns, going to discuss interstellar travel.

    “Some you’ll like and some not. Some you’ll agree with and some not,” she said. “You all can occupy the same space for the course of a weekend. That is very important, and we could use a lot more of that in our national discourse.”

  • Rudy Rucker for io9: The Death of Philip K. Dick and the Birth of Cyberpunk. (December 6, 2011)

    Once I got rolling, I wrote Wetware at white heat. I wrote the bulk of the first draft during a six-week period from February to March of 1986, although the full process took about five months. I made a special effort to give the boppers’ speech the bizarre Beat rhythms of Kerouac’s writing – indeed, I’d sometimes look into his great Visions of Cody for inspiration. Wetware was insane, mind-boggling, and, in my opinion, a cyberpunk masterpiece.

    I dedicated it to Philip K. Dick, placing my dedication above a quote from Albert Camus’s essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. The quote: “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

    A couple of years later, in 1989, Wetware would win me a second Philip K. Dick award.

    This award ceremony would be at the smallish NorwesCon SF convention in Tacoma, Washington. It wasn’t like the artists’ loft in New York at all. It was in a windowless hotel ballroom with a dinner of rubber ham and mashed potatoes.

    (We think our food offerings have improved over the years! –NWC)

  • Norwescon voted #11 in the Best Local Event category of the 2011 Best of Western Washington competition. (October 12, 2011)

  • Los Angeles Times: Rainn Wilson geeks out: 10 favorites from my sci-fi and fantasy bookshelf (July 29, 2011)

    When I was growing up in the ’70s in suburban Seattle, I had a secret obsession. I was a science fiction and fantasy nerd. This was waaaay before it was ever halfway cool to be one. This was before “Star Wars,” mind you. Before Comic-Con and “The Dark Knight” and the “Lord of the Rings” movies. These were the dark days of “Logan’s Run” and “Zardoz” and “Silent Running.”

    My dad was an aspiring sci-fi author and we used to go every year to NorWesCon, the sci-fi and fantasy convention of Seattle. The most bizarre, mossy, unwashed nerds of the northwest would crawl out of their caves and cabins and caverns and descend upon the Ramada Inn at Sea-Tac airport for a weekend of lectures, book signings and Dungeons & Dragons gaming.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Rainn Wilson discussing attending Norwescon as a youth, and reading from his father’s fantasy novel. (March 22, 2011)

  • KOMO 4: A 1985 news report on Norwescon 8. (March 15, 1985)