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COSine Convention Join us each January in Colorado Springs at the foot of Pikes Peak for this gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, authors, and artists.

COSine 2027 https://cosinecon.org/ is coming up January 22-24, 2027 at the Great Wolf Lodge Colorado Springs. https://co...
07/28/2026

COSine 2027 https://cosinecon.org/ is coming up January 22-24, 2027 at the Great Wolf Lodge Colorado Springs. https://cosinecon.org/hotel/

Okay, so it has been a long time since you’ve heard from us. All I can say is that alien abduction is much more time-consuming than you’d think—there’s all the time in the alien ship, then the mandatory time you have to spend being interviewed by Steven Spielberg.

Working out hotel details has also been quite challenging, and we were starting to think we’d end up in a tent in the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot. But thankfully, we can now announce that COSine 2027 will be held at the Great Wolf Lodge! More on that in a bit...

First, I want to tell you about our 2027 Guests:
Mur Lafferty – Mur is a science fiction author and podcaster. Her novel Six Wakes was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, and her podcast Ditch Diggers won the 2018 Best Fancast Hugo Award. Cory Doctorow (our 2026 GoH) called Mur “…one of the worst-kept secrets in science fiction and fantasy publishing.”
Ness Brown – Our Science Guest of Honor Ness is an astrophysicist and author. Ness’s work focuses on how the birth of the first stars and supermassive black holes affected cosmic evolution.
Robin Monogue – Robin, our Artist Guest of Honor, is a fiber artist, weaver, and crafter. She is also a long-time friend of COSine, responsible for many of the early covers for the convention program book.
Connie Willis – Special Guest and Sci-Fi Grand Master. Connie is one of the most awarded science fiction writers working today and is an invaluable part of the science fiction community—encouraging, teaching, and sharing her stories.
Courtney Willis – Special Guest, the remarkable Dr. Science. He’s amazing at demonstrating and explaining scientific topics, and a collector of side-interests, including sewing machines, quilting, telescopes, and slide rules, and is likely currently studying the high-level multi-dimensional topology required to fit everything into the Willis house.

Hotel
As many of you are aware, we had some challenges with our previous hotel, and we were unable to resolve them in a timely manner for COSine 2027. However, we are excited about our new venue, the Great Wolf Lodge!

Great Wolf Lodge has a fantastic event space and is a lovely hotel that just happens to also have a 50,000 square foot indoor water park attached! While more expensive than we are used to, they have offered our members a rate of $169/night, which is a lot lower than their regular rate. The rate includes:

A Deluxe Queen Suite (up to 4 people)
Complimentary parking (usually $20/night)
Complimentary Wi-Fi
Full access to the water park (if you are so inclined)
The hotel has multiple on-site restaurants and snack spots, and there are also many restaurants close by. Unfortunately, it is a pet-free facility, so only service dogs/miniature horses are allowed (which, sadly, also excludes emotional support animals).

You can register on their website here https://www.greatwolf.com/colorado-springs or call them at 844-553-9653. In either case, use the registration code 2701COSI to get the reduced rate. The rate is only available until January 4th, 2027.

If you have trouble, ping us at [email protected], and we’ll work with the hotel to sort it out.

Great Wolf Lodge is close to I-25 and Interquest Parkway (exit 153), so a bit closer for people coming down from Denver. (Apologies to our friends from Albuquerque who will have to travel a bit further). We are very slowly drifting northward. At the current rate, we will be in Canada in 2181 and should hit the North Pole by 2649. It may be slightly warmer there than our 2026 hotel…

Registering for COSine 2027
Registration for COSine is now open! https://cosinecon.org/registration/ We’d kept it closed until either a hotel or Chuck E. signed the contract. (We did get an early offer from someone named Chucky, but we eventually realized they were not the same puppet).

The cost of registration goes up at the end of October, and it is really helpful for our heartburn if you can register as early as possible!

If you are not sure whether you registered at the last COSine, you can check using our online registration lookup tool. https://reglookup.cosinecon.org/

Dealers Den, Authors Alley, Art Show
Normally we’ve reached out to dealers, authors, and artists by now. However, we haven’t quite yet figured out exactly how everything will be laid out, so we don’t know how many tables and panels we will have available. Please give us a little time to figure that out. We hope to reach out with details in the first few weeks of August…

Contacting Us
Feel free to ping us if you have any questions or issues, working lightsabers, warp drives, Schrödinger cat boxes, or pretty seashells.
General: info @ cosinecon.org
Programming: programming @ cosinecon.org
Art Show: artshow @ cosinecon.org
Dealers/Authors Row: dealers @ cosinecon.org
Gaming: info @ cosinecon.org
Volunteering: info @ cosinecon.org
Thank you,

The COSine Con Com

Registration Lookup You can use this to see if you are registered for COSine 2027. Just enter your e-mail address and you will receive an e-mail listing all registrations associated with that e-mail. Note: It may take a few minutes for the e-mail to arrive (if you don't see it, then check your spam....

01/26/2026

O Wonderful Fandom!

We hope everyone had a wonderful convention and made it home safely!

Thank you all for coming! We hope to see you next year.

What was your favorite part of the convention? 🥰

01/20/2026

We also have a Dealers Den, Author Alley, and Fan Tables!
NOTE: Dealers Den = Dealers Room
As with the artists, please reply with perhaps your website, a photo, etc. to get folks excited to buy from you!

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01/17/2026

COSine 2026 is coming up January 23-25, 2026 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs.

Just wanted to send out one last reminder about COSine, which is just one week away!

The team just took up the airship to do some advanced weather checks, which is a bit odd, because I thought they just checked the weather app on their phones. This is the message they sent:

“Weather’s looking good for the con, with the happy sun symbol for Friday and Sunday, and only a bit of cloud for Saturday. Also, does anyone know how to fly an airship—the purple mountains majesty are getting awfully close…”

Online registration is now closed, but you can register at the door for the entire weekend, or for day passes.

And just a reminder of our guests—Cory Doctorow, Dr. Josiah Seaman, Michael Carroll, Connie Willis, and Courtney Willis. And more hoopy froods, writers, artists, and techies than you can shake a stick at. If you are the sort of person who likes to shake sticks at people.

And if you want even more Cory, he will be at the Tattered Cover on the Thursday before the con!
Contacting Us
Feel free to ping us if you have any questions or issues, airship driving manuals, pyranometers, working weather control devices, or really pretty seashells.
General: info @ cosinecon.org
Programming: programming @ cosinecon.org
Art Show: artshow @ cosinecon.org
Dealers/Authors Row: dealers @ cosinecon.org
Gaming: info @ cosinecon.org
Volunteering: info @ cosinecon.org
Hope to see you next week...

Arlen, Eli, Karen, Morland
The COSine Con Com

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COSine has a wonderful art show with new artists and artists that have been with us since our convention started.

As usual, we'll have:
* Silent Auction (High bid picks up on Sunday at 2 pm)
* Quick Sales (No bids? Pay quick sale and take it immediately)
* Print Shop (Buy art for a set price and take it immediately).

Come by and come buy! Bid high! Bid often!

Heather Carr
Michael Carroll ~ Artist Guest of Honor
Peri Charlifu
Jessica Coyle
Kyle Crutcher
Brenna Deutchman
Steve Evans ~ New
Kyra Ferguson
Kevie Frost
Thrifty Gryphon
Amy Griswold
Craig Griswold
Robert Hay
Jim Humble
Reynold Mackey
Theresa Mather
Reed Mingault ~ New
Don Pelton
Beverly Pfeifer
Bob Pfeifer
Shroom
Peachtastic ~ New
Fire Thieves Studio
Daniel Tomlinson ~ New
Beverly Warner
Gary Weston
Ben Yakura

Artists, you can add a preview of your art, link to your website, etc. to this thread to help people get excited about what we can buy!

COSine 2026 will be January 23-25, 2026 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs.A Happy Merry to you all!COSine...
12/30/2025

COSine 2026 will be January 23-25, 2026 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs.

A Happy Merry to you all!

COSine is now only a few weeks away! The schedule is done (you can see it here https://cosinecon.org/currentschedule/, and also the list of participants https://cosinecon.org/participants/), and we have fired up the fusion reactor to get ready to start printing the program books—and to top off the charges on the staff and volunteers (once we find the right cables).

If you want to get the best rates before they go up, now would be a great time to preregister https://cosinecon.org/registration/. Aside from saving money, it also guarantees that you get a spiffy laminated badge with your name preprinted on it!

Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam
Before moving on, I did want to address something. Many of you have contacted us to let us know about messages offering to sell you the COSine mailing list. Just to be clear, we do not, have not, will not ever sell our mailing list or your contact info!

The messages are definitely spam, and while we are sure that the senders—Tabitha/Wendy/Priah/Layla/Kelly/et al—are lovely people, we suspect that responding to these messages would not end well. They’ve tried to sell us our own list multiple times as well, which is at least a bit tempting, since their version has a lot more names on it than ours!

Hotel
You can book a room at the Hilton site here https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/coscces-xco-205684a8-fb33-4ff4-b4e8-a735d3f63574/. You can also call them at 719-599-9100. Be sure to mention COSine to get the con rate (and so the con gets credit for your room nights :-).

The deadline for getting the reduced rate has been extended to January 7th. However, the hotel is filling up fast. If you’d like a room (particularly if you’d like a double-queen room vs. a king room) you should probably book as soon as possible.

If you have any problems with booking a room, please let us know (just send a message to [email protected]) and we’ll help get it sorted.

Guests of Honor
One more quick rundown of our main guests:
Cory Doctorow – Our Guest of Honor, the amazing writer, journalist and activist. He’s best known for his Little Brother series, and also for coining the term Ensh*ttification (and writing a book with that title. He'll also be doing a panel about it at COSine). It explains why almost every interaction with technology these days has turned into a rage-inducing nightmare. Or is that just me?
Dr. Josiah Seaman – Our Science Guest of Honor, a Geneticist and Bioinformatician who also knows a lot about a lot of different subjects. He and Courtney have a really cool hands-on science panel planned.
Michael Carroll – Our artist guest of honor, Michael is best known as an award-winning space artist who literally has some of his art on Mars (in digital form) and is also an author and international teacher and lecturer.
Connie Willis – Special guest and Sci-Fi Grand Master. Everyone always looks forward to her panels at COSine, but I definitely want to hear what she has to say on the other of our rudely-named panels this year!
Courtney Willis – Special guest, the inimitable Dr. Science. As well as a big hands-on science demo with Josiah, he’s also bringing some 150+-year-old sewing machines from his (large) collection, and is going to do a make-and-take panel where you can try them out!

Contacting Us
Feel free to ping us if you have any questions or issues, prehistoric computing devices, Minas Tirith LEGO sets, house-trained llamas, or portable black holes.
General: info @ cosinecon.org
Programming: programming @ cosinecon.org
Art Show: artshow @ cosinecon.org
Dealers/Authors Row: dealers @ cosinecon.org
Gaming: info @ cosinecon.org
Volunteering: info @ cosinecon.org

Arlen, Eli, Karen, Morland
The COSine Con Com

12/08/2025

COSine 2026 Status Report #3

COSine 2026 will be January 23-25, 2026 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs.

Only a bit more than a month and a half to go before COSine! Amazingly, things are starting to come together. You can see the (preliminary) schedule here (https://cosinecon.org/currentschedule/), and also the list of our talented and charming participants, not to mention our main guests (https://cosinecon.org/participants/):
Cory Doctorow – Our Guest of Honor, the amazing writer, journalist and activist. He’s best known for his Little Brother series, and also for coining the term Ensh*ttification (and writing a book with that title. He'll also be doing a panel about it at COSine). It explains why almost every interaction with technology these days has turned into a rage-inducing nightmare. Or is that just me?
Dr. Josiah Seaman – Our Science Guest of Honor, a Geneticist and Bioinformatician who also knows a lot about a lot of different subjects. He and Courtney have a really cool hands-on science panel planned.
Michael Carroll – Our artist guest of honor, Michael is best known as an award-winning space artist who literally has some of his art on Mars (in digital form) and is also an author and international teacher and lecturer.
Connie Willis – Special guest and Sci-Fi Grand Master. Everyone always looks forward to her panels at COSine, but I definitely want to hear what she has to say on the other of our rudely-named panels this year!
Courtney Willis – Special guest, the inimitable Dr. Science. As well as a big hands-on science demo with Josiah, he’s also bringing down some 150+-year-old sewing machines from his (large) collection, and is going to do a make-and-take panel where you can try them out!

Registering
Haven’t signed up yet? Register now (https://cosinecon.org/registration/), register often. Also, what better x-mas gift could there be than a membership to COSine? (Note: I’m just being told there are 197 better gifts. But still, top 200. Not bad.) Not sure if you’ve already registered? You can check using our online registration lookup tool (https://reglookup.cosinecon.org/).

It is also cheaper to buy a membership ahead of time than at the door!

Hotel
You can find details on registering for a room at our hotel, the Embassy Suites by Hilton Colorado Springs. You can also call them at 719-599-9100. Be sure to mention COSine to get the con rate (and so the con gets credit for your room nights :-).

If you have any problems with booking a room, please let us know (just send a message to [email protected]) and we’ll help get it sorted. Also, be aware—the con rate is only available until January 2nd, 2026.

Note: Due to the joys of the Hilton registration system (see discussion of Ensh*ttification above), some people, at some times, have seen better rates than the con rate. If you see one, you should definitely take it. However, if you could also let us know, we can tell the hotel and get credit for your stay!

Contacting Us
Feel free to ping us if you have any questions or issues, sequenced dinosaur DNA, alien tech, cool seashells, or any pieces of the Key to Time (willing to trade).

General: info @ cosinecon.org
Programming: programming @ cosinecon.org
Art Show: artshow @ cosinecon.org
Dealers/Authors Row: dealers @ cosinecon.org
Gaming: info @ cosinecon.org
Volunteering: info @ cosinecon.org

Arlen, Eli, Karen, Morland
The COSine Con Com

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