Well solar flares may be interesting but not as interesting as intergalactic battles.

Lara Croft has done wonders for the sci-fi community. There was a time where the most excitement you could find in the bar at DragonCon was an informed discussion on the dangers of light-speed with a wookie.

The tomb raider has changed all that. Suddenly the chances of scoring with someone possessing the usual number of human appendages in the correct places and who is FEMALE have sky-rocketed.

Here we see Gen. Veers laying a line on one of the Lara Crofts who, to the annoyance of several Leias, were in high demand at the bar of the downtown Atlanta Hyatt Regency.

Somewhere upward of 20,000 fans descend on Atlanta for this event every year, filling three massive hotels to share everything from their comic-book collections and home-brewed Lord of the Rings fan fiction to gigantic Transformer costumes they've spent months creating for the Masquerade Ball contest

You have missed Dragcon for this year however you can put their web site on your favourites for next year. www.dragoncon.org