NOVACON 53
8 – 10 November 2024
The Palace Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire
![](https://novacon.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Allen-stroud-homepage-1024x768.png)
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Novacon 53 Guest of Honour:
ALLEN STROUD
Allen is a science fiction, fantasy and horror writer, a lecturer and researcher at Coventry University, and Chair of the British Science Fiction Association. He has also been Chair for several Fantasycons. He writes in a variety of formats and has work published as novels, short stories and in computer games. His novel FEARLESS (2020 from Flametree Press) has been praised as hard SF that offers a glimpse of a vividly plausible future for humanity as it colonises the solar system, and in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s words, a “fast-paced, gripping hard SF with death in hard vacuum waiting at every turn.” The sequel RESILIENT was published in 2022.
![](https://novacon.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Palace-Hotel-homepage-1024x768.png)
Novacon 53 will be held at
The Palace Hotel, Buxton
Located in Buxton, Derbyshire, and a one-minute walk from the train station, this grand Victorian hotel is light and airy with high ceilings and some impressive decor. And possibly a ghost.
As usual the convention will play host to a wide range of exciting guest panels, busy dealer’s room and vibrant art show.
![](https://novacon.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/N-icon.png)
Latest news & updates:
Progress Report 1 is now available to download.
HOTEL BOOKING NOW OPEN
To reserve a room call Central Booking 0333 323 1574 and use the code NOVA080224 to get our rates. This number is available 8am – 8:30pm, Monday – Friday, 9am – 5:30pm Saturday.
Anyone with mobility requirements should book directly with the hotel on 01298 767000 and use the option 4. This number is not available evenings and weekends.
![](https://wp.novacon.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/audience.jpg)