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If you have any interest in science fiction at all, you'll find something at
Cascadia Con, an official North American Science Fiction Convention held only seven times since 1975. This makes eight, and for the first time, it's in the Seattle area. The five-day event, which begins today, is expected to
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Cascadia Con is the 8th North
American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 30 years. A NASFiC is only held when the Worldcon for that year is outside of North America. In 2005 the Worldcon will be in Scotland and Seattle will host the
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was sponsored by
Cascadia Con and released at the convention. It was published by Windstorm Creative and edited by Cris DiMarco. Over 950 authors submitted stories for this anthology, of which 25 were selected for publication.
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Cascadia Con was held under the auspices of SWOC, the
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Cascadia Con by Jeffrey Pierce and Robert Wertheimer.
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