To help you dress and act accordingly, the con will be split into three different themed days: Friday evening ConFounding Tales of Criminal Thrills! Tommy guns, molls and lead overcoats. Some silly games to start with, followed by the Grand Speakeasy disco, police bribes permitting. Saturday ConFounding Tales of Cosmic Tyrants! Jetpacks, plucky damsels and lightning fields. Rocket building and indoor air-races for boffins, with talks and games for contrast. In the evening it is the Wedding Buffet and Ceilidh of the Space Baron (bring your own bride, he goes through them at a fair pace). Sunday ConFounding Tales of Creeping Terror! Arcane tomes, slithering somethings and black madness. There will be sword-fighting (as if that helps against the Old Ones) more talks and games, the racing of giant frogs and the epic Battle of the Biscuits. There may also be a couple of events running throughout the weekend, but we don't want to spoil any surprises. To conclude - fun. As we speak, the planet's finest brains-in-jars are calculating a pulse-pounding program guaranteed to thrill any lucky attendee to their very marrow. However, these immense intelligences cannot precisely formulate their titanic timetable without your help. Usually, they would just take over any minds they needed, using an impressive 'bolt of lightning' effect, but this isn't covered by our insurance. So they have to ask nicely. What would you like to see at ConFounding Tales? What could you quite happily do without? How many program items do you have to suggest before we'll give you the antidote to the poison you just drank? Send your suggestions to events (at) empirewideweb (dot) com and we'll print them off, shred them, and feed them into the brains' tanks.