Event Horizon

Live science fiction events, online and in real-life.

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Celebrating Nova Scotia volume 2

7pm – 8.30pm Wednesday 4th December 2024
Nova Scotia Volume 2 is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Scottish Writers.

Edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson.

NS2 was launched to great acclaim at Glasgow Worldcon 2024 in August, and now it’s Edinburgh’s turn to celebrate this great collection of Scottish SF writing talent.

There will be:

Readings from

Ken MacLeod
Rhiannon A Grist
Lindz McLeod
Ali Maloney

Conversations with the editors

Book signings

Hosted by Gavin Inglis

Gathering at a nearby pub post event (to be chosen)

“Will you not be entertained?”

Venue: the sumptuous
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre,
Old College, South Bridge,
Edinburgh EH8 9YL (Room 1.264)

Tickets: £0/£5/ £15 including book

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon — End of Days

7.30pm – 9.30pm Wednesday 7th December 2022

Event Horizon – end of days! (Last EH 2022, a farewell to founders Mark & Noel)

Prose and poetry: Eris Young, Pippa Goldschmidt, Russell Jones, Ken MacLeod
The myPet Flash fiction competition results: read by Debbie Cannon
Music: Painted Ocean via the interdimensional music box

Also

The Launch of Shoreline of Infinity 33

Everyone is welcome to a cabaret of science fiction to mark the end of one era and the start of a new one for Shoreline of Infinity.

Tickets: £0/£5 or pay what you can

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon meets DataFest

7.30pm – 9.30pm Tuesday 1st November 2022

Special Event Horizon as part of DataFest 2022, in the stunning setting of the Bayes Centre, Edinburgh University.

All welcome

Glasgow scifi Hip-Hop from Miles Better

Prose from: Ever Dundas reading from her new novel HellSans

Poetry from Jeda Pearl and Ruth Aylett

and drama from Danielle Farrow and Angela Milton – A neurodivergent artificial lifeform emerges. Written by Jo Ross-Barrett

Your MC for this evening – Russell ‘Bad Jokes’ Jones

Join us at the Bayes Centre, Edinburgh. Also live online via Youtube (no ticket required for the livestream, but buying a ticket as a donation would be ace!)

Tickets: £0/£5 or pay what you can

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon – Celebrating Women in Sci-Fi

7.30pm Thursday 31st March 2022

A stompingly cracking line-up tonight: Music from Krow; prose from ZK Abraham, Rhiannon A Grist, TH Dray; poetry from Clementine E Burnley and a specially produced film-drama – Star Cuddie – with Debbie Cannon and introduced by Kirsty Vance

Your MC for this evening – Lyndsey Croal

Join us at the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh. Also live online via Youtube (no ticket required for the livestream, but buying a ticket as a donation would be ace!)

Tickets: £0/£5/£10 or pay what you can

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon – Myths and Legends

8pm Thursday 13th May 2021

A cabaret of mythic proportions! This live event will feature myth and folklore influenced music, prose and poetry readings, plus a bonus extra-special inside look at the process of designing a tabletop RPG adventure.

With Rachel Plummer, Lewis Clarke, Katalina Watt, Lyndsey Croal, Brian Tyrrell and Rhiannon A Grist. Your MC for this evening – Eris Young.

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon – Ken MacLeod’s Road Trip

8pm Thursday 15th April 2021

Ken MacLeod’s Road Trip takes us from Scotland through the north of England and London to the far side of the Earth.

Three talkative passengers – Charles Stross, Justina Robson and Tasha Suri – read from their work, and over the car radio Hannah and Sam Bennett play drive-time music live from the wonderful world of tomorrow.

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon – celebrating International Women’s Day

8pm Thursday 11th March 2021

Marking International Women’s Day the science fictional way. And launching the pilot issue of Shoreline of Infinity Monthly.

Host: Laura Lam

Music: Kirsty Heggie

Words:
Bo Balder
Laura Watts
Caroline Hardaker
TD Walker

Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon – Jane Yolen and The Last Robot

8pm Thursday 11th February 2021

Join Jane Yolen and the Shoreline team as we proudly publish and launch her short collection, The Last Robot.

Poems, will be read,

chat will be had,

jokes may be made.

Hosted by Russell Jones.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 7th June 2025

A stunning night of glorious science fictional words and music.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 1st June 2024

A stunning night of glorious science fictional words and music – and swords!

Event Horizon at the Argonaut Bookshop

Readings from Lyndsey Croal and Rhiannon Grist, poetry by Russell Jones, and music by The Reverse Engineer

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 3rd June 2023

At the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ tickets £8 /£5 concession www.cymerafestival.co.uk A stunning night of sumptuous science fictional words and music. Music: Andrew

Event Horizon – The End of Days Video

If you missed Event Horizon End of Days, fear not. Every word and picture was saved for posterity in video and stored on our Youtube Channel.

It turned out to be quite a do, with Russell Jones and the editorial team putting on a show to mark the end of the first era of Shoreline of Infinity.

Inclusive worldbuilding in SFF across different media

Research question: How is worldbuilding used as a creative practice in SFF to imagine different/alternative worlds and address concerns about inclusivity and diversity? This is

Shoreline of Infinity at the Indie Publisher’s Book Fair

For the second year Stairwell Books are running an Independent Press Book Fair in Edinburgh and Shoreline of Infinity are proud to be invited. Venue:

Clear your calendars – upcoming happenings

Open up your calendar apps and pour in these dates. 15th September, 17th Sept (x2) and 1st November

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 4th June 2022

This is a stunning night of entertainment to celebrate Saturday at Cymera! Music: Aurora Engine Poetry: Cat Hellisen Prose: Laura Lam, Lindz McLeod, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shoreline of Infinity at the Cymera Roxy Takeover

Shoreline of Infinity’ at the Cymera Roxy Takeover – Visit us in the Creatives Hall by day, and join us for Event Horizon by night. Ken MacLeod book launch at 3pm.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon – Back In the Flesh!

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon is Back in the flesh!

Cli-Mates: Climate Futures Conversations from Scotland

This project brings together four conversations between participants in CSI’s Climate Imagination Fellowship and authors, advocates, and scholars based in Scotland

Shoreline Of Infinity Pushing the Boat Out

Join Shoreline at Edinburgh’s first International poetry Festival.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon – Cymera 2021

On catch-up. Fill your screen, turn up the volume and sit back. Enjoy the show!

Alba ad Astra – Book launch at Cymera Festival

Did Scotland ever have its own top-secret space programme? Did the project succeed in sending a man into space, even if it couldn’t bring him back?
Watch the (book) launch event.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon – Jane Yolen’s Last Robot

Join Jane Yolen and the Shoreline team as we proudly publish and launch her short collection, The Last Robot.
Poems, will be read, chat will be had, jokes may be made.
Hosted by Russell Jones.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon – Launching Nineteen

Music: Texture

Poetry: F.J. Bergmann

Prose: Chris Beckett, Tony Ballantyne

Art: Jackie Duckworth and Mark Toner

Flash Fiction Awards – winning story read by Danielle Farrow

Zoom Drama: The Infinitesimals – Reptilian Flux continues

Hosted by: Noel Chidwick and Mark Toner

Book Launch: Umbrellas of Edinburgh

Thursday 19th November 2020

Join editors Claire Askew and Russell Jones at the launch of a new edition of Umbrellas of Edinburgh, where they explore Scotland’s capital city through contemporary poetry and prose.

Live readings by:

Alice Tarbuck

Finola Scott

Ricky Brown

Lady Red Ego

Marjorie Lotfi Gill

Book Launch: Uncanny Bodies

Thursday 12th November 2020

Launch of ‘Uncanny Bodies’ anthology – readings of stories, poems and essays celebrating the uncanny.
Published by Luna Press

Featuring readings of stories and poems from contributors

Pippa Goldschmidt (MC)
Christine De Luca
Neil Williamson
Alice Tarbuck
Sara Wasson
Eris Young
Naomi Salman
nicky melville

Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

8pm Wednesday 4th November 2020

New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research.

Readings and chat from

Clare Duffy
Pippa Goldschmidt
Gavin Inglis
Neil Williamson
Andrew J. Wilson
Kirsti Wishart
Vivek Senthivel

Editors: Larissa Pschetz, Jane McKie, Elise Cachat

Music: Theremin Hero Poetry: Stephen Sexton Prose: Corey Brotherson Academic chat: Gabriel Elvery (University of Glasgow) and Charly Harbord (Abertay University) Games design talk: Graeme McKellan, No Code (Observation, Stories Untold) Hosted by Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones

Event Horizon – Digital Wor(l)ds – Video Gaming and SFF

8pm, Thursday 22nd October 2020

Join Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones as they explore sci-fi in video gaming, with live videogame-inspired poetry, prose, music and talks from videogames researchers and industry professionals.

Music: Theremin Hero
Poetry: Stephen Sexton
Prose: Corey Brotherson
Academic chat: Gabriel Elvery (University of Glasgow) and Charly Harbord (Abertay University)
Games design talk: Graeme McKellan, No Code (Observation, Stories Untold)

Hosted by Ruth EJ Booth and Russell Jones

In conversation: Rhiannon A Grist and Ely Percy

Parallel Prose

Discussing Parallel Universes and Parallel Lives.

8pm, Thursday 15th October 2020

In conversation: Nailah King and Chimedum Ohaegbu

Surveillancing the Future

A chat about sci-fi technologies, surveillance, the bias and discrimination of technologies with Nailah King and Chimedum Ohaegbu

8pm, Thursday 27th August 2020

Artists In conversation: Mark Toner and Stephen Pickering

Encounter on Naar 6

Shoreline of Infinity artist Steve Pickering talks to art director Mark Toner on Steve’s home planet Naar 6.
In their discussion they chat about what is required to illustrate a science fiction story.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 7th June 2025

A stunning night of glorious science fictional words and music.

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 1st June 2024

A stunning night of glorious science fictional words and music – and swords!

Event Horizon at the Argonaut Bookshop

Readings from Lyndsey Croal and Rhiannon Grist, poetry by Russell Jones, and music by The Reverse Engineer

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 3rd June 2023

At the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ tickets £8 /£5 concession www.cymerafestival.co.uk A stunning night of sumptuous science fictional words and music. Music: Andrew Ferguson Prose & Poetry: Callum McSorley Pippa Goldschmidt Ely Percy Gavin Inglis Featuring the Cymera/Shoreline winning story, read by the author MC: Andrew

Clear your calendars – upcoming happenings

Open up your calendar apps and pour in these dates. 15th September, 17th Sept (x2) and 1st November

Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon at Cymera 4th June 2022

This is a stunning night of entertainment to celebrate Saturday at Cymera! Music: Aurora Engine Poetry: Cat Hellisen Prose: Laura Lam, Lindz McLeod, Adrian Tchaikovsky Live art projection: James Abell Drama: “Spiked” with Ben Blow, Debbie Cannon and Michael Daviot* MC & bad jokes: Russell Jones At At the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh

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