Confinement 4 February 24-26, 2023
Lebanon, TN
Convention Information
General Updates
02/21/2023
Just three more days! We are excited to see you there!
General notes and updates:
- Convention schedule has been added below as a link.
- The hotel pool will NOT be available. It is unfortunately still under repair until April.
- Anyone with small kids, if the weather is conducive, there is a neat park less than 4 miles from the hotel. Don Fox Community Park includes a castle and pirate ship as part of the main playground area.
- Mike will be running a game of Paranoia with the Paramilitary pack. Get with him if you’re interested.
01/22/2023
We are at 43 rooms reserved of our original 30 room block, and over 100 registered attendees!
There is still time to reserve a room and order your t-shirt. Limited shirts will be available on-site for those who do not pre-order.
08/22/2022
We are pleased to announce our FIRST Guest of Honor:
Stephanie Osborn
05/17/2022
Block is starting with 30 rooms in Comfort Suites and 10 in LQ. The block can expand to fill more of Comfort Suites once we book those 30 rooms.
THIS MEANS BOOK A ROOM ASAP. We can release the rooms up until the week before. We can swap them around our group. Don’t “wait until I’m double dog dare sure I can go” and find the rooms are all sold. Book NOW.
Rooms are about $115, discounted lower for Thursday and Sunday nights.
“Winter Sci Fi Con” direct at 615-443-0027.
24-26 Feb 2023
It should propagate to Corporate’s number soon.
Guest of Honor
Stephanie Osborn
Award-winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery, is a veteran of more than 20 years in civilian/military space programs, with graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is “fluent” in several more, including geology and anatomy. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to some 50+ books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space
Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series, and has written the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as “Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files,” and the award-winning, exciting Sherlock Holmes: Gentleman Aegis series. Her latest venture: Division One, her take on the urban legend of the mysterious people who make evidence…disappear, as well as the ongoing story of Dominick Ashton and his legacy in Richard Weyand’s popular EMPIRE series. In addition to her writing, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery now happily “pays it forward,” teaching math and science through numerous media including ebooks, radio, podcasting and public speaking, as well as working with SIGMA, the science-fiction think tank.
Memberships are $45 per attendee, and kids under 8 are free.
Memberships can be ordered below, with the T-shirt orders, or by using the Contact Page for payment information.
T-shirt design:
HOTEL: Comfort Suites
Address: 904 Murfreesboro Road, Lebanon, TN, 37090, US
Phone: (615) 443-0027
Block name: “Winter Sci Fi Con” (direct)
To Reserve: Contact by phone:
- Comfort Suites, 615-443-0027
- La Quinta, 615-470-1001
The room block is open Thursday February 23 through Monday February 27th, 2022.
Rooms are about $115, discounted lower for Thursday and Sunday nights.
La Quinta is the overflow hotel. (615) 470-1001, same block name.
Note from Convention Leadership:
Please book early. If we fill it, they’ll try to add more rooms from other cancellations. Half the rooms are in the Comfort Suites, the rest in La Quinta, literally across two aisles of parking.
The slight increase in room rate helps offset the function space.
Guest of Honor:
Stephanie Osborn –
http://www.stephanie-osborn.com/
Schedule:
The schedule can be found here.
Art:
We have tabletop space for art, and artists are welcome to bring easels, gridwall, or other vertical displays. Sales encouraged!
Vendors:
aka Wallet Emptying Services:
Vending space still available. Attendance is small but dedicated. Our returning vendors have been quite pleased with the response.
GAMING
Gaming will be ad-hoc but space is available and set aside in the main areas for the purpose.
Game supplies, knives and swords, T-shirts, lots of books.
Registration
The “Add to cart” buttons will open another page. Just return to this one to continue adding to the cart before checking out.
T-shirt pre-orders are available, design pending. The default T-shirt color is BLACK. If you do not pre-order a special color, it will be black. A limited number will be available “at the door,” also in black.
If you will be attending and can pay in advance, please register below:
If you will be attending, and would like to pay “at the door”, please use the Contact page to have your name added to the list. | ||||||||