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Hey there folks, welcome to the first in a series of articles that I'll be writing for Octocon.com, exploring the connections between science fiction and music. This is the first of a planned three article series, with each part covering a slightly different aspect of the relationship: to begin with, “Music from SF” will cover the soundtracks and themes of science fiction films and TV shows; “Music in SF”, the second article, will examine the music that exists within science fiction settings; and finally “Music as SF” will be about music that tells science fiction stories.

This of course, could change entirely as I write it. I'll also be touching on these same topics in horror and fantasy worlds, and I'd love to get feedback and suggestions from readers.

We've already gotten some great suggestions on our twitter page, including a link to the excellent blog Sci-Fi Songs (thanks to @JohnAnealio for the link!).  Their top-rated song, the excellent Cylon #6, brings me nicely to my starting point: the music in the TV show Battlestar Galactica. 

Octocon is OMG-inducingly excited to announce yet another wonderful guest for 2010 in the form of writer and director Alex de Campi! Alex is the  amazing writer of such fine comics, manga and bandes desinées as the Eisner Award-nominated Smoke (with Igor Kordey) for IDW, Kat and Mouse (with Frederica Manfredi) for Tokyopop and Messiah Complex (with Eduardo Ocaña) for Les Humanoïdes Associés.

Her work in recent times has extended to television, music videos and film. She has worked on Dive Olly Dive! for Kabillion jr. in Australia, the upcoming film Hardly Bare to Look at You and far too many music videos to list, the most infamous of which is possibly the Amanda Palmer Leeds United video, the video that led to The Rebellyon.

We're so excited to have Alex, and we hope you are, too!:)

Lots of Octolove,

Octocon

Well, it looks like we have some 2010 news to share with you!

Lorraine Garland, more commonly known as Fabulous Lorraine, will be guesting at Octocon 2010! Lorraine is the fabulous assistant to Mr. Neil Gaiman (author of Sandman, Coraline and American Gods among a billion other things) as well as a musician, writer, beekeeper and all-'round lovely person!

She announced over on her blog that we will be having her over and she seemed awfully excited! Go say hi and let her know you'll be there! :)

You can also follow her on Twitter!

And us, of course, in case you aren't!

We have oh-so-much more news to tell, so stay tuned!

Love,

Octocon