It's time for the annual science fiction season to begin. Spring and summer are when giant science fiction flicks hit the screens, and even more giant science fiction conventions open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of light saber-wielding masses. New television series will debut (Clone Wars!), and old ones will restart (Battlestar!) Plus, you'll have a chance to snap up copies of awesome new books from Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Nancy Kress. If you want to know where to go and what to do when you're in a science fictional way from April to August, then look no further than io9's exhaustive, amazing, intensive list of everything scifi this season.


Special Note: We have tried to list as much as possible here, but there are always things that will get left out. If you want to know every single book coming out this season, check out Locus magazine's exhaustive and ever-expanding list. And if you want to know about more cons, check the user-generated list at ConFinder, as well as the Ansible Events List (mostly UK). If you know of sites that list European and Asian cons, let us know in comments so we can add it here.

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April

Books



Karen Joy Fowler, Wit's End



Orson Scott Card, Keeper of Dreams



Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods



Walter Jon Williams, Implied Spaces


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Movies and Television



April 4



Final Season of Battlestar Galactica begins

Conventions



April 4-6



I-CON 27 - Stony Brook, NY - $55 registration at the door



Odyssey Con VIII - Madison, WI - $45 registration at the door



WillyCon X-Treme - Wayne, NE - $20 registration at the door



April 11-13



CoastCon 31 - Biloxi, MS $40 registration at the door



April 18-20



Conglomeration 2008 - Louisville, KY - $40 registration at the door



EerieCon Ten - Niagara Falls, NY - $35 registration until April 8



New York Comic Con - New York, NY - $45 registration



Penguicon 6.0 - Troy, MI - $45 registration at the door



April 24-27



Nebula Awards Weekend - Austin, TX - $50 registration



April 25-27



RavenCon 2008 - Richmond, VA - $35 registration until



UberCon - Edison, NJ - $65 registration



Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention - Lombard, IL - $35 registration



April 26



Uni-Con 2008 - Rindge, NH - $25 registration at the door



April 26-27



Fantasticon 2008 - Copenhagen, Denmark - 15 euro


May

Books



Cory Doctorow, Little Brother



Ellen Datlow, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (stories)



Greg Egan, Incandescence



Nancy Kress, Nano Comes to Clifford Falls (stories)



Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Steampunk (stories)




Movies and Television



May 2



Iron Man



May 9



Speed Racer



May 22



Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


Conventions



May 2-4



DemiCon 19 - Des Moines, IA - $45 registration



May 9-11



LepreCon 34 - Casa Grande, AZ - $40 registration through April 15



May 15-18



Eurocon-2008 - Moscow, Russia - $100 registration at the door



May 16-18



Chronicling Mars: The 2008 Eaton Science Fiction Conference - Riverside, CA - $110 registration until April 14



KeyCon 25 / CANvention 28 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 55 CAD before April 30



May 23-25



CONduit XVIII - Salt Lake City, UT - $35 registration until May 1



Oasis 21 - Orlando, FL - $30 registration until April 30



May 23-26



Balticon 42 - Baltimore, MD - $59 registration after April 1



Timegate: Regenerations - Atlanta, GA - $35 registration until April 30



WisCon 32 - Madison, WI - $45 registration through April 30



BayCon - Santa Clara, CA - $70 through May 10



May 30-June 1



ConCarolinas - Charlotte, NC - $25 registration until May 25

June

Books



Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Mercy



Stephen Baxter, Flood



Tanya Huff, Valor's Trial



Movies and Television



June 13



The Happening



The Incredible Hulk



June 27



Wanted



Wall-E


Conventions



June 13-15



DucKon 17 - Naperville, IL - $40 registration until May 1



June 26-29



Midwestcon 59 - Cincinnati, OH - $25 registration until May 25



June 27-29



ApolloCon 2008 - Houston, TX - $30 registration until May 1



June 28-29



ConRunner 2008 - Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom - £35 registration until June 21

July

Books



Charles Stross, Saturn's Children



Greg Bear, City at the End of Time



David Louis Edelman, MultiReal



Movies and Television



July 2



Hancock



July 4



Love Story 2050



Jul 11



Meet Dave



Journey to the Center of the Earth



Hellboy 2: The Golden Army



Jul 18



The Dark Knight



Space Chimps



July 25



X-Files 2


Conventions



July 3-6



CONvergence 2008 - Bloomington, MN - $53.50 registration



Westercon 61: A Gathering of Fen in the Desert - Las Vegas, NV - $60 registration until April 28



July 10-13



Science Fiction Research Association 39th Annual Conference held jointly with the 2008 Campbell Conference: "Teaching, Reading and Creating Science Fiction" - Lawrence, KS - $140 registration until April 30



July 11-13



OSFest: The Omaha Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival - Omaha, NE - $40 registration until June 30



Polaris 22 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 50 CND registration until June 2



July 17-20



Readercon 19 with guests of honor Jonathan Lethem & James Patrick Kelly - Burlington, MA - $50 registration until June 30



July 18-20



Lazy Dragon Con - McKinney, TX - registration opens July 18



July 24-27



Dum Dum 2008 - Waterloo, IA - registration information available soon



San Diego International Comic-Con - San Diego, CA - daily registration from $20 to $35



July 25-27



Confluence 2008 - Pittsburgh, PA - $35 registration until early July (date TBA)



July 26-28



Finncon08 - Tampere, Finland - free



July 31-August 3



Oslo Science Fiction Festival - Oslo, Norway

August

Books



Ben Bova, Mars Life



Ken MacLeod, The Night Sessions



John Scalzi, Zoe's Tale



Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose



Judith Merril, Not Only a Woman (collection of four Merril novels, two co-authored with C.M. Kornbluth)



Movies and Television



Aug 15



Clone Wars TV series debut



Aug 29



Babylon A.D.

Conventions



August 1-3



Diversicon 16 - Minneapolis, MN - $30 registration until July 14



Fandemonium '08 - Nampa, ID - $30 registration until July 20



August 6-10



Denvention 3: The 66th World Science Fiction Convention - Denver, CO - $200 for full membership until July 10



August 15-17



Con-Version 24 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - $60 registration



August 21-24



Gatecon - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - $135 registration



August 22-24



Bubonicon 40 - Albuquerque, NM - $30 registration until May 1



August 29-Sept. 1



Dragon*Con - Atlanta, GA - $65 registration until May 15, 2008


Additional reporting by Nivair H. Gabriel.