Chris "The Magician" O'Shea attended his first convention in 1980
in the US.
Chris "The Magician" O'Shea attended his first convention in 1980
in the US.
Since then he's been involved in running conventions of all kinds (including DrWho/Blakes7/Babylon5, costuming, Discworld, filking, humour, serious literary, British National Convention/Eastercon and Worldcons), running the www.SMOF.com website, maintaining the www.EASTERCON.org website and contributing to Wikipedia and the ConRunner wiki.
His band, Cosmic Trifle, were Guests of Honour at FilkContinental in Germany in 2004.
In 2007 Chris won the JETS (Japanese Expeditionary Travel Scholarship) by popular vote of European fandom and is attending Nippon 2007 thanks to the generous support of the League of Fan Funds and the 2005 Worldcon, Interaction.
Chris will be in Japan for two weeks after Nippon 2007 and is looking for places to see and people to visit, so come up, say hello and invite him to see your local area and meet your local fandom.
He's been known to write his biography in the third person and to drink diet Coke!