BasedCon 5

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BasedCon V is Sept. 5-7, 2025

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan (a hotel about 10 minutes from the GRR airport)

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Featured Guests

Rachel Fulton Brown

Rachel Fulton Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where she teaches courses on the history of Christianity, medieval European religious, cultural, and intellectual history, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. She blogs as Fencing Bear at Prayer, and she lectures on Logos, Tolkien, and medieval history at Unauthorized.tv. The Dragon Common Room is her online classroom for training poets in the arts of the Christian imagination. She livestreams weekly on the Mosaic Ark with co-host Kimberly Crilly. Visit DCR Books for details on their past and ongoing adventures!

www.dragoncommonroom.com

fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com


Alex Macris

Alexander Macris is an entrepreneur, game designer, author, and business executive. A graduate of Harvard Law School magna cum laude (2000), Alexander founded and ran the MMORPG consultancy Themis Group in 2001 as well as the videogame media websites WarCry and The Escapist in 2005. Under his leadership, The Escapist earned 6 Webby Awards and was named by Time Magazine as one of the top 20 websites on the internet. He has worked on more than 40 different videogame titles as a designer, marketer, or consultant. He also has run the operations of the casual game sites Addicting Games and Shockwave and the men's lifestyle websites Break.com and EveryJoe.com. In 2011 he founded Autarch LLC, a game development studio that publishes the Adventurer Conqueror King System, and has served as lead designer on its entire product line.


Blaine Pardoe

Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to speak about his books. Mr. Pardoe has been a featured speaker at the US National Archives, the United States Navy Museum, the US Naval Academy, and the New York Military Affairs Symposium. He was awarded the State History Award in 2011 by the Historical Society of Michigan and is a silver medal winner from the Military Writers Society of America in 2010. In 2013 Mr. Pardoe won the Harriet Quimby Award from the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame for his contributions to aviation history. Mr. Pardoe has been a speaker at CrimeCon 2018 speaking about the Colonial Parkway Murders. He and his daughter run the true crime podcast, Tantamount. He has been an author and designer in the gaming industry since 1985. He has written countless sourcebooks for games including the Star Trek RPG, Space 1889, the Robotech RPG, BattleTech/MechWarrior, Twilight 2000, Renegade Legion Centurion, Interceptor, and Leviathans. He has authored numerous science fiction novels in the BattleTech/MechWarrior universe. In the last few years, he has been a regular contributor to American Thinker, PJ Media, American Greatness, Bizpac Review, and other conservative sites. In 2022 the current license holder for BattleTech, Catalyst Game Labs, cancelled him after complaints led by an online stalker whom he has a protective order against. His conservative political thriller series, Blue Dawn and his new military sci-fi series, Land&Sea, have been Amazon bestsellers. His books have been mentioned on the floor of the U.S. Congress. His works have been printed in six languages and he is recognized world-wide for his historical and fiction works.

@bpardoe870


Bill Willingham

Bill Willingham is probably best known as the creator and writer of the long running Fables comic series.

Billsartandstories.onlineweb.shop

billwillingham.Substack.com

@billwillingham


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Meet your favorite authors, learn about writing and publishing, play games, socialize, and have fun!

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