News and Updates on Necronomicon,
Tampa's SF Convention.
Updated: 10-12-11
Necronomiocn has Fans!
You Like Us, You Really Like US!
Holy Zarquon Singing Fish! This is really cool! Some fans of Necronomicon made a Commerical for Necronomicon 2011 and put it up on you tube. I'm just boggeled they'd do this. I've got to show it to you:
Updated: 10-11-11
There was some confusion on the website about Pre-Registration Deadline. Currently, pre-reg is still valid thru Sunday the 16th. If the Paypal link is working, you can buy your membership. The October 1st deadline was supposed to be just for mailed in checks for membership. We are sorry if this caused some confusion, and the pages and links are up to date.
If you booked your hotel room through a method other than the Hilton page
provided on the Necro site, could you please contact
deb@stonehill.org
with your name and dates of booking. We can get credit for the rooms but
we need the names. This is very important to the Convation. Please help!
A copy of the program books is up on the website now in PDF. You can get a sneak peek at it here.
Updated: 10-6-11
If you booked your hotel room through a method other than the Hilton page
provided on the Necro site, could you please contact
deb@stonehill.org
with your name and dates of booking. We can get credit for the rooms but
we need the names. This is very important to the Convation. Please help!
Due to concerns by the hotel staff, no costume weapons of any type can be carried in hand. They must
be holstered or sheathed. Please see the rules form for
more on the weapons policy.
The list of all the Panels at Necro 2011 is posted on the Panels Page.
Updated: 9-7-11
In case you missed it on the main page, the T-shirt Design has been chosen and you can find it by clicking the image at the right.
T-shirt Pre-Orders will end September 15th! Only a limited number of extras will be printed. Order yours here on our PayPal page.
This year, we are offering you two opportunities to get a good meal at Necronomicon. Early arrives can get a great Breakfast buffet for $10 Friday morning at 9am. You can also join us at the Guest of honor Banquet on Friday evening at 6pm for $15. Details on are on the Banquet Page or just go to the Paypal page to purchase your Breakfast or Banquet ticket. Cutoff date for both is October 10th.
Updated: 8-2-11
To celebrate our 30th anniversary, we will be giving a special Necronomicon imprinted Messanger Bag to everyone who preregisters for the convention by October 1. You'll receive your Bag when you check in onsite at convention registration. There will be a limited number of the Messanger Bags available at the door, so register early to be sure you don't miss out on our giveaway.
Updated: 7-25-1
The Art Show has updated PDF forms in a writable format. Visit The Artists pages to find them.
Friday night at 11pm in the Main Ballroom will see the return of the Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog stageshow. This year, The Evil League of Evil is Recruiting Videos for submission, that will be shown during the Stage show. Click the link for more info!
NecronomiProm Theme for 2011 Set
In conjunction with the Necronomicon on Mars theme for the 30th anniversary Necronomicon, our prom theme will be "Martian Fantasy." Formal wear or fancy dress is suggested, although not required. Suggestions for formal wear to fit the theme would be garments in reds and oranges to match the Martian landscape or greens to go with the imagined little green men from Mars. Fancy dress (costumes) could range from Steampunk to Modern Martian Funk. Anything that relates to fiction about Mars works.
As is now traditional, we will be choosing a prom King, Queen and Other from among the guests. Everyone is eligible. Just get a ticket when you arrive (free) and add it to the royal handsack. The prom is Saturday night after the costume contest.
Updated: 6-6-2011
Updates to the website continue. Webpages with white text has been updated for 2011. If it has gray text, it is leftover.
Once again we are doing a T-shirt Design Contest for our 2011 Shirt. If you have an artistic bent, or are just bent in general, then maybe you should send us an entry. The Theme for the Con is "Necronomicon on Mars", though the shirt does not have to reflect this theme. Here are several copy/pasted hyperlinks to our pages on T-shirts: T-Shirt Design Information How to Design a Necro T-shirt 29 pervious years of T-Shirt History
T-Shirt Design entries need to be in by August 12th for judging!
Author tables are sold out. If you are interested in getting a dealers'
room table, please go to the dealers' page and contact Amber.
Updated: 1-28-2011
The Necronomicon 2011 website is currently being updated. Look for pages where the text is white (like this one) to show it has been updated. The Gray color means it is still from last year. Below, you will find a write-up from our Program Organizer. Check back soon to see if you favorite page has been updated. (Seriously? You DO have a favorite page? You have GOT to get out more often! ~Webmaster)
We have a theme for this year’s Necronomicon. We’re celebrating our 30th year and honoring our guest of honor Ben Bova by having Necronomicon on Mars! Yes, that’s right. We’re going to host the convention on the red planet. Okay, we can’t actually go to Mars but we can do a darn good job of pretending.
If you are a costumer, you have a tremendous variety of literature, television, radio and film tales from you which you can take inspiration. Some of you might want to use Mr. Bova’s the
Grand Tour series by our guest of honor Ben Bova.
Wikipedia has a nice list of Mars fiction including radio, television, film and literature.
Last year, our Friday night guest of honor dinner was so popular that we are going to have one again this year. The menu is not set at this point but we’ll let you know when it is and how you can get tickets for the dinner. Anyone who wants to hear the guest of honor speech will be allowed to come into the room but dinner tickets will be limited. They will be available on a first come, first served basis. You will have to be a member of the convention to attend the dinner.
A couple of other things that were new last year that will be back are the Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock tournament and Starship Smackdown.
Naturally, we’ll have our Friday night Ygor party in the con suite, Dr. Horrible singalong, S
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