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Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid@brisbane28.org · 2w ago

This week the team played Fantasy Guest List. Which fictional characters would we invite to be our Guests of Honour, Special Guests, or featured panelists, in which capacity and why. #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. (do play along and add ideas).

We are excited for @laworldcon.bsky.social! It's just 25 days away! Have you voted in #SiteSelection yet? To hear more about the bid, come to the Future Worldcons Question & Answer on Saturday 29th August, 9am PDT. If attending virtually, there will be a livestream #BrisbaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028

Our final comment on #CommonwealthGames as we know it's not what you are here for: Australia has dominated with 47 Gold so far and 103 medals overall. We are delighted to see New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Nauru, and Papua New Guinea all in the medal tables, with a wave to Vanuata! #BrisbaneIn2028!

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Get ready for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Find the daily schedule, venue information, and ticket updates for Glasgow 26.

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This Saturday: TRANS NERD MEET UP! The mellowest happiest social event in SF. Anyone who doesn't identify as cis can show up and socialize. Bring games or projects if you want! Or just come and hang out. It's, and I cannot emphasize this enough, a chill time. www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-nerd...

TRANS NERD MEETUP: August 2026!

This is a mellow lovely gathering for everyone who identifies as trans/nb/gnc and as a nerd!

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The 2nd competition we went to was Women's 86kg class. It wasn't as exciting as the morning as the top and bottom was really distinct, with the jockeying in the middle. But oh, the top! The way it works, contestants bid what they will lift. #CommonwealthGames #MeanjinIn28 #Brisbanein28 #Oceania

@effjayem.bsky.social is at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow today at the same site as @glasgow2024.bsky.social Effjayem will of course be cheering 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but also Team 🇦🇺🦘🐨 And look whose headquarters they passed this morning! Go Team Australia! #BrisbaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028

Writing my #GUFF report I have remembered a key difference in coffee orders in Australia: don’t ask for an Americano, ask for a Long Black; don’t ask for espresso, ask for a Short Black. #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028 www.brisbane28.org/support-us/s...

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Come meet your favourite legendary creators of SFF. LAcon V August 27-31 in Anaheim. lacon.org/register

Brisbane is bidding to host WorldCon in 2028! What's WorldCon we hear you ask?

This week the team played Fantasy Guest List. Which fictional characters would we invite to be our Guests of Honour, Special Guests, or featured panelists, in which capacity and why. #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. (do play along and add ideas).

ICYMI - thread!

Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid@brisbane28.org · 2w ago

Have you read @julietmarillier.bsky.social's work? Juliet Marillier is from New Zealand and now lives in Western Australia. Juliet writes historical fantasy strongly inflected with folkore and romance, and has claimed multiple award nominations and wins. ...

Have you come across the work of multi-talented Tasmanian Tansy Rayner Roberts? @tansyrr.bsky.social is an award winning author, was a founding member of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, has co-edited several fiction anthologies, and won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer 2013. That's not all...

The Mortons is out TODAY. 21 July!

It was published in 2002. (Sorry. Historian by training.)

Have you read Justine Larbalastier's work? @larbalestier.bsky.social is an award-winning fiction writer and critic. Originally from Sydney, she particularly came to attention with the 2003 _Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction_, which was a Hugo nominee in 2003. ...

Have you read @julietmarillier.bsky.social's work? Juliet Marillier is from New Zealand and now lives in Western Australia. Juliet writes historical fantasy strongly inflected with folkore and romance, and has claimed multiple award nominations and wins. ...

Home - Juliet Marillier Author

Note, the following outline contains spoilers for The Amber OwlStasya and her companions have made a remarkable journey to find the true heir to the

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You cute Aussies with your weird scifi continent! Next thing you'll tell us you have different stars in the night sky down there! Or animals with, I don't know, pouches or something 😅! Or tell us about weird fantasy terms like 'rort', 'dag' and 'drongo' 🤣

Happy Smiling Axolotl

Alt: Happy Smiling Axolotl (yes we know it's Mexican. Just trying to be happy in my reply here and not evil 😊)

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Did you know that Australia has multiple time zones and that *not all of them use Daylight Savings Time*? This means that at some times of the year we have five time zones, and at other times, three. During Worldcon, we'll only have three.

Today is the first day of the World Science Fiction Society Business Meeting for 2026. It's held virtual over four weeks, & today is the meeting that 'preps' theother meetings. So it isn't too late to take part: you need to be a member of the @laworldcon.bsky.social (and virtual members count).

Site Selection is open @laworldcon.bsky.social Your vote provides start up money for #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. And please support us as Mates/Virtual Mates! Along with WSFS supplement (bought with Site Selection), this is the cheapest way to join the convention www.brisbane28.org/support-us/s...

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Buy merch, contribute donations, grab an attending membership! Your gateway to support the Brisbane in 28 bid.

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We're looking for volunteers to help at the #BrisbaneIn2028 Bid Table at LAcon V! If you're interested, please drop us a line at forms.gle/BUK7H1Fe7UJG...

Brisbane in 28 Volunteer Form

Thank you for your interest in volunteering for Brisbane in 28! We need volunteers, and volunteering is a fantastic way to meet people and make new friends. This survey gives you a chance to tell us m...

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The #BrisabaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028 table at @laworldcon.bsky.social needs helpers. If you are interested DM with your details and someone will get back to you.

Meet Aimee Lindorff I'm currently based in Sydney, but I've only recently left Brisbane. I've lived in a lot of places, but Brisbane is my home. While I'll be working in event production when the time comes, til then I'm helping out with the Brisbane insights and social media.

Site Selection is open at LA Con V. Your vote provides start up money for #Meanjin2028 #Brisbanein2028. You can also support us as Mates/Virtual Mates. These only need the WSFS supplement to be full memberships, this is the cheapest way to join the convention. www.brisbane28.org/support-us/s...

Support the Bid - Brisbane in 28

Buy merch, contribute donations, grab an attending membership! Your gateway to support the Brisbane in 28 bid.

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Congratulations to Australian Author @kaaronwarren.bsky.social who scooped up the Shirley Jackson Award for best short story at Readercon last night. www.shirleyjacksonawards.org #BrisbaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028

We are very sad to hear of the death of New Zealand actor Sam Neil. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78.

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He currently lives in Perth, Australia.

Talabi’s writing has earned him the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, the Nommo award for African speculative fiction, and multiple nominations, including as a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus awards and the Caine Prize for African Writing. He has edited five anthologies.

His short fiction is collected in the books CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS (2024) and INCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS (2019).

Wole Talabi is the next featured Program Participant for LAcon V! @wtalabi.com is an engineer, writer and editor from Nigeria. He is the author of THE FIST OF MEMORY (2026) and SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON (2023).