Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Androidâ„¢ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

CoastCon

Index CoastCon

CoastCon is Mississippi's longest running and largest science fiction, fantasy and gaming convention. [1]

38 relations: Anime, Art, Biloxi, Mississippi, Board of directors, Card game, Comic book, Costume, Dave Arneson, David Drake, David Weber, Deborah LeBlanc, Digital media, Fan convention, Fantasy, Filk music, Film, Gamer, Genre, Gigi Edgley, Hard and soft science, James Cawley, John Picacio, Michael Moorcock, Mike Mearls, Miniature figure (gaming), Mississippi, Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Nicki Clyne, Noel Neill, Peter Jurasik, Peter Mayhew, Robotics, Role-playing game, Science fiction, Sharon Green, Television, Virginia Hey, Writing.

Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

New!!: CoastCon and Anime · See more »

Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

New!!: CoastCon and Art · See more »

Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.

New!!: CoastCon and Biloxi, Mississippi · See more »

Board of directors

A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

New!!: CoastCon and Board of directors · See more »

Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

New!!: CoastCon and Card game · See more »

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

New!!: CoastCon and Comic book · See more »

Costume

Costume is the distinctive style of dress of an individual or group that reflects their class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch.

New!!: CoastCon and Costume · See more »

Dave Arneson

David Lance "Dave" Arneson (October 1, 1947Minnesota Department of Health. Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s.

New!!: CoastCon and Dave Arneson · See more »

David Drake

David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature.

New!!: CoastCon and David Drake · See more »

David Weber

David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first novel, which he worked on with Steve White, sold in 1989 to Baen books. Baen remains Weber's major publisher.

New!!: CoastCon and David Weber · See more »

Deborah LeBlanc

Deborah LeBlanc is an American horror author.

New!!: CoastCon and Deborah LeBlanc · See more »

Digital media

Digital media are any media that are encoded in machine-readable formats.

New!!: CoastCon and Digital media · See more »

Fan convention

Fan convention (also known as con or fan meeting), a term that antedates 1942, is an event in which fans of a particular film, television series, comic book, actor, or an entire genre of entertainment, such as science fiction or anime and manga, gather to participate and hold programs and other events, and to meet experts, famous personalities, and each other.

New!!: CoastCon and Fan convention · See more »

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

New!!: CoastCon and Fantasy · See more »

Filk music

Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy/horror fandom and a type of fan labor.

New!!: CoastCon and Filk music · See more »

Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

New!!: CoastCon and Film · See more »

Gamer

A gamer is a person who plays interactive games, either video games, skill-based card games and plays for usually long periods of time.

New!!: CoastCon and Gamer · See more »

Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

New!!: CoastCon and Genre · See more »

Gigi Edgley

Gigi Edgley (born 16 November 1977) is an Australian actress and recording artist.

New!!: CoastCon and Gigi Edgley · See more »

Hard and soft science

Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms used to compare scientific fields on the basis of perceived methodological rigor, exactitude, and objectivity.

New!!: CoastCon and Hard and soft science · See more »

James Cawley

James Cawley (born June 23, 1967) is an American executive film producer and actor, known for his assumption of the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the fan film series Star Trek: Phase II.

New!!: CoastCon and James Cawley · See more »

John Picacio

John Picacio (born September 3, 1969) is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration.

New!!: CoastCon and John Picacio · See more »

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

New!!: CoastCon and Michael Moorcock · See more »

Mike Mearls

Michael Mearls is a writer and designer of fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) and related fiction.

New!!: CoastCon and Mike Mearls · See more »

Miniature figure (gaming)

A miniature figure (also known as a miniature, mini, figure, mini-fig or fig) is a small-scale representation of a historical or mythological entity used in miniature wargames, role-playing games, and dioramas.

New!!: CoastCon and Miniature figure (gaming) · See more »

Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

New!!: CoastCon and Mississippi · See more »

Mississippi Coast Coliseum

Mississippi Coast Coliseum is an 11,500-seat reserved seating, 15,000 festival seating, multi-purpose arena in Biloxi, Mississippi.

New!!: CoastCon and Mississippi Coast Coliseum · See more »

Nicki Clyne

Nicki Clyne (born February 11, 1983) is a Canadian actress.

New!!: CoastCon and Nicki Clyne · See more »

Noel Neill

Noel Darleen Neill (November 25, 1920 – July 3, 2016) was an American actress.

New!!: CoastCon and Noel Neill · See more »

Peter Jurasik

Peter Jurasik (born April 25, 1950) is an American actor known for his television roles as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 and Sid the Snitch on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff Beverly Hills Buntz.

New!!: CoastCon and Peter Jurasik · See more »

Peter Mayhew

Peter Mayhew (born 19 May 1944) is an English-American actor, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series.

New!!: CoastCon and Peter Mayhew · See more »

Robotics

Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and science that includes mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and others.

New!!: CoastCon and Robotics · See more »

Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

New!!: CoastCon and Role-playing game · See more »

Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

New!!: CoastCon and Science fiction · See more »

Sharon Green

Sharon Green (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and romance.

New!!: CoastCon and Sharon Green · See more »

Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

New!!: CoastCon and Television · See more »

Virginia Hey

Virginia Hey (born 19 June 1952) is an Australian actress, known for her role as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan in the science fiction television series Farscape, playing the "Warrior Woman" in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, and various roles in television drama series, such as lawyer Jennifer St James in E Street.

New!!: CoastCon and Virginia Hey · See more »

Writing

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs and symbols.

New!!: CoastCon and Writing · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoastCon

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »