Westercon 70 Program Guide

by Hal C.F. Astell, Julie Dillon (Cover Design)

This is the program book for Westercon 70, a regional science fiction/fantasy convention, held in Tempe, AZ over the 4th of July weekend, 2017.

200 pages, Paperback

Published June 21, 2017

About the author

While I still have a day job to pay the bills, I'm a teacher by blood and a writer by the grace of the dread lord, which gradually transformed me into a film critic. I've reviewed the sort of films that most people don't at Apocalypse Later Reviews for fifteen years. I post two album reviews every weekday. I write book reviews for the Nameless Zine.

Born and raised in the rain of England, I'm still learning about the word "heat" over a decade after I moved to Phoenix, AZ, where I live with Dee, my much better half, in a house full of assorted critters and oddities, a library with a ghost guard ferret and more cultural artefacts than can comfortably be imagined. And I can imagine quite a lot.

I run the Apocalypse Later Empire. I have many books in print through Apocalypse Later Press with more on the way, along with many issues of the Apocalypse Later Zine. I hosted six years of ALIFFF (the Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival, a dedicated annual genre film festival. I bring quality films to new eyeballs at conventions across the southwest through the Apocalypse Later Roadshow.

I'm usually easy to find at festivals, conventions and events because I'm likely to be the only one there in a kilt and my fading English accent is instantly recognisable on podcasts and panels. I haven't been trepanned yet, but I'm friendly and don't bite unless asked.