Dublin 2029 invites you to the crossroads, a place both permanent and ever-changing. At the edge of Europe, the veil between worlds can be thin, which makes it a perfect gathering place to share stories, plant ideas, and strike deals…. Where we dance together and step apart to create anew, year upon year.
Welcome to the crossroads. Ireland is a place where Neolithic tombs and warnings around the SÃdhe still hold sway alongside cutting-edge technologies and pharmaceutical research. It’s where some of the oldest vernacular literature in the world has led to Swift and Stoker and Barlow and O’Brien (Fitz-John or Flann, take your pick), through pros-also-fans Bob Shaw and James White, and onward to today’s writers like Connolly, Long, Murphy, Zebedee, Ó GuilÃn, Rees Brennan, Griffin, Fennell, and more.
Similarly, we want the next Dublin Worldcon to embrace its function as a meeting-place. It’s where everyone is a fan, even the pros. It’s a holiday and a networking event and a safer space to be yourself, or so we work toward. It’s where we have hundreds, if not thousands, of programme items to discuss what we love – and sometimes to argue about it, too. Where we celebrate the up-and-comers in their fields and hear from new voices alongside established ones.
We contextualise the past and highlight the good while acknowledging where we could have – and should have – done better, and can do better now and in the future.
We will draw on the diverse experience of our team to create programme items discussing what we love – and sometimes to argue about it, too. We aim to contextualise history and highlight the good while acknowledging where we could have – and should have – done better, and can do better now.
We will celebrate speculative fiction in all of its forms. Different genres in the form of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, sure, but also different media – 2D and 3D art, fan fiction and original fiction, music, anime, films, comic books and graphic novels, academic research and queue-based survey silliness.
We will celebrate the up-and-comers in their fields and hear from new voices alongside established ones by making sure they have space to talk, and are provided with support to make the most out of their convention experience.