COSine 2024 will be January 19-21, 2024 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs. I hope you all had a happy Merry! Hard to believe, but COSine 2024 is barely 3 weeks away! This brings with it a few deadlines: Technically, the deadline to register for the reduced pre-show rates expires at midnight on … Read more
COSine 2024 will be January 19-21, 2024 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs. I have to start with an apology. Normally we send out a reminder before October 31st to let you know that prices go up after that date, but many of us were at in Denver at MileHiCon last weekend (Hi, … Read more
The link for the hotel wasn’t working, but we just got a new one: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/cosinejanuary2024embassy/ However, it is a little bit confusing. You might want to check the instructions on our hotels page.
COSine 2024 will be January 19-21, 2024 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs. First, a bit of bad news. Theresa Mather, our Artist Guest of Honor, unfortunately had to drop out. Fortunately, local(ish) artist Jim Humble has agreed to take her place. Jim is an amazing 2D and 3D artist. Here’s a reminder … 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
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
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