Arlen We just heard the sad news that Eric Flint, our COSine 2020 Guest-of-Honor, has passed away. Eric was best known for his novel 1632 and the alternate history series it inspired. As a guest, he was lovely and generous (despite a reputation for gruffness that seems undeserved). He was also well known for inspiring and … Read more
At the end of 2021 we weren’t sure if there was even going to be a COSine 2022, much less a COSine 2023. For those who don’t know, on December 30th, 2021 the Hotel Eleganté was purchased and decided to no longer hold conventions! Fortunately, after a bit of bargaining, COSine 2022 went ahead and … Read more
The list of panels and participants is now up on the web site! The schedule is actually (theoretically) done, but I am a little afraid to publish it this early since there are always a few changes as people realize that they are actually visiting their Aunt Hortenses at that hour and could they please … Read more
We are very excited to announce that our Science Guest of Honor for COSine 2022 will be Anthony Maltese, the curator of the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center! He has promised to bring some cool dinosaur/mosasaur/fossil stuff. I don’t know about you, but I had to google mosasaur (extinct, large marine reptiles if you are … Read more
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that the hotel info was still set for 2021. It is now fixed. You can sign up here for the special convention rate of $99/night.
Last June we had to make the difficult decision to postpone COSine 2021. After that we put ourselves into suspended animation until such time as a vaccine for COVID was available and an appropriate supply of lemon-soaked paper doilies could be acquired. Well, the doilies arrived, and most of us have aching arms, so it … Read more
C.J. Cherryh, our guest of honor for COSine 2022, was just announced as the winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award! The award will be officially presented during Balticon on May 28th (virtually). Congrats to C.J. For us, this is doubly cool, since C.J. is our GoH and FFF, the group that runs COSine, is … Read more
When you run conventions, you have to plan for various different contingencies. For 2021, we budgeted for the obvious: Zombies. Dinosaurs run amok. Zombies riding dinosaurs. The usual stuff. Unfortunately, we didn’t plan for a pandemic–extraterrestrial or otherwise. Build a giant underground research facility, they said. Have you even seen Resident Evil, we said? In … Read more
Well, we all survived COSine 2020! I think it actually went really well–nothing important was burned down, and the people I spoke with seemed to be enjoying themselves–or were nice enough to lie convincingly about it! I intend to do a post with stats from the con (which were all good), but in the meantime, … Read more
A few people have asked for the day rates for the con, so here they are: Adult Friday Only: $20 Saturday Only: $30 Sunday Only: $20 Full Weekend: $50 Student Friday Only: $15 Saturday Only: $25 Sunday Only: $15 Full Weekend: $40 Child (5-12) Friday Only: $5 Saturday Only: $5 Sunday Only: $5 Full Weekend: … Read more