MenuIf you still need to purchase your membership, it’s easy! Pre-convention full weekend and one day membership rates are available online through Saturday, February 10, 2018. To pick up your name badge and convention materials, come to Registration at the top of the escalator in the Harbor Foyer area.
On-Site Registration Hours
- Friday: 1:00 pm – 8:30 pm
- Saturday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Sunday: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Full Weekend Rates
- Adult Full Convention: $65
- College Student Full Convention: $40 (school ID required)
- K-6 Full Convention: $25 (school ID may be required)
- 7-12 Full Convention: $25 (school ID may be required)
- Kids-in-Tow: $0 (See Below for more information)
Adult Day Rates:
College Day Rates: (school ID may be required)
- Friday: $20
- Saturday: $40
- Sunday: $20
Student K-12 Day Rates: (school ID may be required)
- Friday: $10
- Saturday: $20
- Sunday: $10
Memberships for Children
All children (ages 7–12) who use Dragonslair services must be convention members. However, children who stay with their parents at all times are considered “kids-in-tow,” and need not have memberships. (“Kids-in-tow” do not receive any convention materials.) We are not able to offer babysitting through the convention.
At-Convention Membership Purchase
If you miss the online registration window, don’t worry! You can still purchase your membership at Boskone. Registration opens at 1:00 pm on Friday, February 17th. Don’t forget to bring a government-issued or school-issued photo-ID, such as a driver’s license, with you to pick up your badge.
Kristy Acevedo is a YA author, high school English teacher, and huge Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Harry Potter fan. When she was a child, her “big sister” from the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program fostered her love of books by bringing her to the public library every Wednesday. Her debut YA science fiction series, The Holo Series (Consider 2016 and Contribute 2017 with Jolly Fish Press) won the 2015 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award and was a 2017 finalist for the Philip K. Dick award. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two daughters, and two cats. Visit her 
Alexander Jablokov recently published the novella The Forgotten Taste of Honey, his first real fantasy, and liked it so much he is turning it into a novel, currently titled Icecliff. Even more recently, he published How Sere Picked Up Her Laundry, the first in a projected series of science fiction mystery novellas set in a city packed with dozens of refugee alien species. His most recent novel was Brain Thief, an AI-hunting thriller that does not take itself too seriously. He’s written a number of other novels, and many short stories. His day job is creating marketing content for technical and healthcare companies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit his 
James Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards — but that’s old news. What’s new is that he has just published his first novel in decades. Mother Go is a audiobook original available exclusively for downloading from Audible.com and Amazon. The audiobook, recorded by multiple Audie winner, January LaVoy, will be the only edition for the foreseeable future. His most recent short story collection was the career retrospective Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly (2016) from Centipede Press, but there will be a new collection forthcoming any minute now Prime Books called The Promise of Space. Visit his 
One of Boskone’s annually featured panels is the Boskone Book Club. This year, we will be gathering on Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 10:00 am.
The Boskone Bake Sale benefits the 
6:30 PM – SATURDAY, February 17
Les is a physicist, a science and science fiction author, and a NASA technologist. His science fiction novels include Back to the Moon, Rescue Mode (with Ben Bova), On to the Asteroid and his latest, Mission to Methone. His popular science books include Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World, Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel and Sky Alert: When Satellites Fail. In his day job, he is the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout solar sail mission which will launch in 2019 and a Formulation Manager in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Science & Technology Office. Les is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The British Interplanetary Society, The National Space Society and MENSA – and is the Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. He was a technical consultant for the movies Europa Report and Solis. NPR, CNN, Fox News, The Science Channel and The Discovery Channel have all interviewed Les about space and space exploration. He was the featured Interstellar Explorer in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine and has been interviewed on Science Friday. Visit his 
Jeff Hecht writes about science and technology for magazines including New Scientist, Nature, and IEEE Spectrum. He also writes short fiction, which has been published in Nature Futures, Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Interzone, Asimov’s and anthologies including NESFA Press’s Conspiracy! His recent books include City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics, Beam: The Race to Make The Laser, and Understanding Lasers. He is now working on a book on the history of laser weapons. He lives in the Boston area with his wife Lois. Visit his 
Andrea Corbin is a Boston-based writer. Her work has appeared in Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online, Crossed Genres Magazine, Sub-Q, and The Sockdolager. Her interactive fiction and the occasional blog post can be found on her website, amcorbin.com. She talks a lot of nonsense on Twitter as @rosencrantz, but sometimes there are cat pictures, too.
Walter H. Hunt is a science fiction and speculative fiction writer from Massachusetts. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Dark Wing series, originally published by Tor Books and now in the Baen e-library. He has also written A Song In Stone, a novel of the Templars; Elements of Mind, a Victorian thriller about mesmerism; and, with Eric Flint, 1636: The Cardinal Virtues, part of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. He is married with one daughter, and is Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts. Visit his 
Boskone regularly features lots of programming that is specially designed for children as well as young adults … and adults who enjoy young adult fiction (I know I do!). This year, with Tamora Pierce as our Young Adult Fiction Guest and Catherine Asaro as our Hal Clement Science Speaker, we have an especially wonderful selection of choices for children, teens, and adults. Here are are some highlights that we hope you will enjoy.
Boskone’s Regency Dance with Guest of Honor Mary Robinette Kowal
Erin Roberts is a writer and communications consultant from Washington, DC. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Podcastle, Clarkesworld, and The Dark, and her non-fiction has appeared on Tor.com and in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy, People of Color Take Over FSI, and Cascadia Subduction Zone. She is a Staff Writer for Zombies, Run!, an Associate Editor for Escape Pod, and a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and Stonecoast MFA program. Visit her 
Pete Hollmer is the author of the Togahan series, debuting with A Togahan’s Tale, continuing in A Togahan Returns, and A Togahan’s Chance. He grew up in central New York on a steady diet of fantasy, science fiction, and action/adventure and has worked in the tech industry for over twenty years. Pete’s enjoyed designing tabletop and live action games, and spent six wonderfully funny and stressful years writing and producing the steampunk live action role play (LARP) The Calling. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Visit his 
Sarah Jean Horwitz was raised in suburban New Jersey, where her love of storytelling grew from listening to her mother’s original “fractured fairy tales,” a childhood spent in community theater, and heaping dose of Harry Potter fan fiction. Sarah was a film production student at Emerson College when she took her first screenwriting class and realized that making up a movie’s story was a lot more fun than actually making it happen. She graduated with a concentration in writing for film and TV in 2012. Naturally, the first project she decided to write after graduating film school was a book. A few years and many odd jobs later, that book became The Wingsnatchers, the first book in the Carmer and Grit series. The Wingsnatchers was a Spring 2017 Kids’ Indie Next Pick and Junior Library Guild Selection. The second Carmer and Grit book, The Crooked Castle, hits stores in April 2018. Sarah’s other passions include feminism, circus arts, extensive thematic playlists, and making people eat their vegetables. She lives with her partner near Cambridge, MA. Visit her 
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Kenneth has been living and teaching in Baltimore City since 2010 with his wife, Sarah, and two daughters, Mirus and Amare. In that time he has taught 6-10th grade English in Baltimore, Maryland. Kenneth has earned a masters degree in education from Johns Hopkins School of Education, the number one ranked school of education in the country. Since growing up and moving from Peoria, Illinois he graduated from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio in 2008 with a dual degree in Political Science and English, he has written and published five novels. Those six novels are: Thoughts in Italics, a book of short stories that range from speculative to science fiction; Writing in the Margins, a novel that intertwines the characters of Jack Mueller and John Rubaker that makes the reader question what is reality and fiction; Sequence, a dystopian science fiction novel telling the story of Andrea Remus and Thomas Charon through each memory they are forced to relive as they are downloaded in a computer known as the Pandora Complex to save the human race; The Diary of Oliver Lee, the first in a young adult trilogy that tells the story of Oliver Lee, his ability to “stream” stories from the minds of those around him, and his search for the first couple he ever “streamed”; Love and Fear, book two in the Liturian trilogy which tells the story of Kevin and his continued search for Oliver Lee and answers to his possible future and fate; Raped Black Male: A Memoir which tells Kenneth’s story of what it means to be a male rape survivor, overcoming stereotypes of what it means to be black, and male, and that men can’t be raped; Heroes, Villains, and Healing: A Guide for Male Survivors Using DC Superheroes and Villains which uses comic books and back research to help male survivors of child sexual abuse understand and heal from their childhood sexual trauma. Visit his 
Janet Catherine Johnston is a scientist, engineer, master costume designer and choreographer, playwright, dance teacher, singer, martial artist, private pilot, and science fiction author. She is a co-author on numerous scientific journal articles on space experiments as well as on geophysics. She has traveled to 50 countries, including Outer Mongolia, Svalbard and East Germany. She has lived in New York, Alexandria (VA), London and Moscow, but always returns to her Plum Island home. Her hard science fiction stories have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Of Night; Lune Bleue) and her one act plays have been produced n Boston. She has lead space experiments from concept through Critical Design Review, tests and integration, launch, checkout and data analysis, been an invited participant at NASA Mission Design Laboratory, and published multiple scientific/technical reports. She holds four science/engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently she is finishing a screen adaptation of her novella, Lune Bleue.
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Steve Davidson is learning how to be a widower. As he does that, he continues to helm the Amazing Stories website. Visit his 
Leigh Perry writes the Family Skeleton mysteries featuring adjunct English professor Georgia Thackery and her best friend, an ambulatory skeleton named Sid. The Skeleton Paints a Picture is the fourth, and most recent. As Toni L.P. Kelner, she’s the co-editor of paranormal fiction anthologies with Charlaine Harris; the author of eleven mystery novels; and an Agatha Award winner and multiple award nominee for short fiction. No matter what you call her, she lives north of Boston with her husband, two daughters, one guinea pig, and an ever-increasing number of books. Visit her 
Daniel M. Kimmel’s reviews appeared in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for 25 years and can now be found at Northshoremovies.net. He writes on classic SF films for Space and Time Magazine. His book on the history of FOX TV, The Fourth Network, received the Cable Center Book Award. His other books include a history of DreamWorks, The Dream Team, I’ll Have What She’s Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies, and Jar Jar Binks Must Die… and other observations about science fiction movies which was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for “Best Related Work.” His first novel, Shh! It’s a Secret, a novel about Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender’s Guide, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award. His latest book is Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel. He is a past president of the Boston Society of Film Critics and past co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association. Visit his
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