Reconnect
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Reconnect, Eastercon 76, was a convention held April 18-21, 2025 at the Belfast ICC and Hilton Lanyon Place in Belfast, NI. The GoHs were Lauren Beukes, Derek Landy, Jeanette Ng, Rebecca Roanhorse, William Simpson, and Ian McDonald ("bar guest"). It was co-chaired by James Bacon and Tommy Ferguson and was the first Eastercon in Northern Ireland.
A hoax bid for Catastrophe was their only competition.
At the convention, Liz Batty delivered the George Hay Memorial Lecture with the topic "The Genomics Revolution and Infectious Disease".
The Doc Weir Award was won by Christine Davidson.
The BSFA Awards were presented to:
- Novel: Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley
- Shorter Fiction: "Saturation Point" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Short Fiction: "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim
- Collection: Punks4Palestine: An Anthology of Hopeful SciFi for an Uncertain Future edited by Jasen Bacon
- Fiction for Younger Readers: Doctor Who: Caged by Una McCormack
- Long Non-Fiction: Track Changes by Abigail Nussbaum
- Short Non-Fiction: "Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art" by Ted Chiang
- Translated Short Fiction: "Bone by Bone "by Mónika Rusval, translated from Hungarian by Vivien Urban
- Artwork: Jenni Coutts for the cover of Nova Scotia Vol 2
- Original Audio Fiction: "The Personal Touch" by Rick Danforth
Reconnect hosted a bid session that selected unopposed Iridescence and Unconfined as respectively the 2026 and 2027 Eastercons.
- Reconnect publications and photos on fanac.org
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