SFX have an exciting announcement for fans of modern fantasy literature: Stephen Hunt - author of the Jackelian fantasy/scifi series - has confirmed he'll be joining SFX for a weekend in Camber Sands. And not just any old weekend, he's joining them for the British equivalent of Comic-Con, the SFX Weekender taking place 5th-6th February 2010.

Stephen Hunt's novel, 'The Court of the Air' (2007), commenced his Jackelian fantasy/scifi series, and was the first of his works to be published by HarperCollins, also the publisher of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis in the UK. 'The Court of the Air' was also one of the ten books selected by the organisers of the Berlinale Film Festival for presentation to US and European film producers (it was the only scifi novel in the line-up). HarperCollins' elevator pitch for 'The Court of the Air' was summarised as Charles Dickens meets Bladerunner.



In November 2008, his second book in the Jackelian series, 'The Kingdom Beyond the Waves', was nominated for the long-list of the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy. The third book in the series, 'The Rise of the Iron Moon', was published in the UK in February 2009, and the fourth book, 'Secrets of the Fire Sea', will be published February 6th 2010.

Foreign language and international editions of the three novels of the Jackelian series have been sold to Tor Books (USA), Albin Michel (France), Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany), Enterbrain Manga and Anime (Japan), Edições Saída de Emergência (Portugal), Paidós (Spain), AST (Russia), and the Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House (China).

Other luminaries of the scifi scene attending alongside Stephen include actors such as John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd (from the BBC's Torchwood TV series), James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville etc), Lis Sladen (Doctor Who's Sarah Jane herself) and a number of the world's best-selling scifi authors and comic-book creators... Robert Rankin, China Mieville, Mark Millar, Peter F Hamilton, Richard Morgan, Joe Abercrombie etc.

It's a two day event that will become legend - the Woodstock of scifi, indeed!

More details at www.sfxweekender.com and you can buy tickets at https://www.sfxweekender.com/boardingpass/index.php