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Kees van Toorn discovered Science Fiction as a phenomenon in the mid-1960s, after his father had given him the book Bram Vingerling: het Geheimzinnige Horloge (written by Dutch author Leonard Roggeveen) as a birthday present. That was the time when Perry Rhodan started his rise to fame, and – unhappy with the rate of new releases in the Netherlands – Kees soon found himself travelling to friends in Cologne, where he scoured the second-hand bookshops, to return home with bags full of Perry Rhodans to read.

After all, publications of Perry Rhodan in Germany were ahead of the Netherlands by a decade. All this led in 1970 to a visit to the first Worldcon on the continent, in Heidelberg. His (inter)national network of scifi friends grew rapidly and that is how SFANcons, Eastercons and the subsequent Worldcons in England became part of his regular visiting schedule.

Very early on, he started his own semi-pro sf magazine, called Orbit. Many years later, with help from many of his good friends, came the organisation of the Worldcon in The Hague.

The ‘old team’ was planning to have a Reunicon to mark 30 years since ConFiction, but covid put a spanner in the works not once, but twice. This goodbye party is now scheduled to take place at the Glasgow Worldcon in 2024.

Kees is married with two children, and will probably keep working tirelessly until the day he dies, on translations, conventions at home and abroad… although his wife and children have already come up with his epitaph: no more translations!

The ticket portal for HSFCon 2023 is open.

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Prices HSFCon 2023
Weekend € 50,00
Saturday € 30,00
Sunday € 30,00

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HSFCon 2023 will take place at the Van der Valk Hotel in Sneek (NL) on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March 2023. HSFCon is a convention for all fans of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Save the Date!

Soon we will announce the date of the second HSFCon.

To be continued…

From Thursday 26 May 2022 to Saturday 28 May 2022 you can find us at the Imaginarium Festival. Come along for a chat about the HSFCon, Eurcon 2024 or the N.C.S.F. and above all participate in our competition and you could win a weekend ticket for HSFCon 2023!

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Gallery here.

17 people participated in the first edition of the HSFCon quiz.

The winners were announced during the closing ceremony:

3rd place: Jo Smith

2nd place: Eddie van Dijk

1st place: Marco Dingjan

Well done!

The full list can be found below:

	Naam	Aantal goede antwoorden
1	Marco Dingjan	27*
2	Eddie van Dijk	27*
3	Jo Smit	25
4	Erwin van Ballegooij	24
5	Harm-Jan	24
6	NJH Lieshout	24
7	John van Duin	23
8	Saskia Appel	23
9	Klara Lammers	22
10	John Conahan	22
11	Jan Jelle Koerts	22
12	Edwin Mathlener	20
13	Wietske Beeksma	20
14	Frank Groenendijk	18
15	Marije Sanders	16
16	Thijs Scholte	11
17	Hendrik Scholte	10

Most people knew:

• That Clive Barker’s ‘Abarat’ was not made into a movie
• what Kylo Ren’s scar looks like
• that Tom Bombadil wasn’t in the Lord of the Rings movies
  what the abbreviation HSF stands for (luckily 😉)
  
  But only 1 person knew that the spaceship from question 16 was from Lexx.
  The questions about locations in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, the titles of short horror stories and the characters from The Expanse were also unknown to most.

The best answer to question 14 was ‘Thingy from The Expanse’.

About half of the participants should have taken a closer look at the posters for the Eurocon / the pennants that were distributed: it will take place in 2024, not 2023 😉

And did you know that…. If you simply guessed 123,456 on tie-breaker question 40, you would actually come quite close to the correct answer? The difference is only 13,775 words.

Curious about the rest of the answers? You can find them all in the attached file.

The first HSFCon is barely over, but we continue at full speed with the preparations for the second HSFCon.

We would like to make HSFCon 2023 even better. What do you expect from the next HSFCon? What can be done differently? What needs to be done differently? Which guests of honor and guests would you like to see (again)? Do you have suggestions for panels, lectures or workshops? Do you want to help / participate in the next HSFCon? Constructive criticism is, of course, also more than welcome.

We look forward to receiving your e-mail, via info@hsfcon.nl.

Team HSFCon
#HSFCon2023 #WeLoveItLiterally

Thanks, thank you, thank you!
We can’t say it enough: our thanks to everyone who, in whatever form or degree, contributed to (the creation of) the first HSFCon.

Thanks to all the visitors. Thanks to the guests of honor. Thanks to the guests. Thanks to the volunteers. Thanks to the sellers. Thanks to all participants. Thanks to the staff of Van der Valk Hotel Sneek. Thanks to the NCSF. Thanks to the Leeuwarder Courant. Thanks to Omrop Fryslân. Thank you to everyone who contributed to HSFCon 2022 in any form or degree.

We look forward to seeing you at the second HSFCon in 2023!

Team HSFCon
#HSFCon2022 #WeLoveItLiterally

What a second HSFCon day!

We are very curious about your experience. Let us know via info@hsfcon.nl how you experienced this Sunday. Do you have photos or videos that we can share on the website and other social media? Send it to info@hsfcon.nl.

Thank you in advance for your e-mail.

Team HSFCon
#HSFCon2022 #WeLoveItLiterally