Category: Travel
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Arisia 2013, Featuring ME
Next week I'm going to be a program participant at the always interesting Arisia convention in Boston, held at the Westin Waterfront hotel. My schedule, in case you want to follow me around and bask in my brilliance: Saturday (January 19) at 11:30 a.m.: Cambridge SF Workshop Flash Fiction Reading. The members of the coolest…
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Chicon 7: After-Action Report
Overall, the convention was a lot of fun. The whole family had a good time. I would like to give particular praise to the organizers of the childrens' programming track. Instead of just "day care" or "babysitting" they approached it like any other part of the convention activities: "what are some things we can do…
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Chicon 7: The Final Chapter
On Sunday I ferried Agent X down to the extremely well-run ChiKids program area for Doctor Who Lego building, Jedi costumes, and steampunk Nerf guns. Agent X had a great time at Chicon. I spent the same period watching a panel on screenwriting by Michael Cassutt, Melinda Snodgrass, and the alarmingly overqualified Dr. Harry Kloor.…
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Chicon 7: The Third Day
The Crack Team breakfasted in the room again, and once more split up for separate activities. Because Saturday was the day leading up to the grand costume contest, the two younger members of the Crack Team wore their hall costumes: "Agent X" (an alien-fighting Man In Black), and the "Dalekette" (a Dalek-inspired showgirl outfit). I…
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ChiCon 7: The Second Day
Our Crack Team of congoers breakfasted in the room on muffins from one of the many coffeeshops in the warren of tunnels under the Illinois Center complex surrounding the hotel. We then showered, dressed, and went off to the convention. I attended a very entertaining and high-energy panel on "The New Pulp Fiction" featuring Adam…
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ChiCon 7: The First Day
Events at the 70th annual World Science Fiction Convention got underway at noon on Thursday. I attended an interesting panel discussion about digital media, featuring Christopher Kastensmidt, Nancy Fulda, and Tom Dowd. Following that, I went to see the discussion of "Researching History That Never Happened" by Mary Robinette Kowal, Kenneth Hite, Adam Christopher, Martin…
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My ChiCon Schedule
This year the 70th annual World Science Fiction Convention is being held in Chicago over Labor Day weekend. ChiCon 7 starts on Thursday, August 30, and runs through Monday, September 3. The Guests of Honor include legendary science fiction writer Mike Resnick, and even-more-legendary astronaut Story Musgrave. And, of course, me. My schedule is as…
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Pi Fight!
Pi-Con is the Pioneer Valley's oldest and biggest science fiction and fantasy convention. This year's con runs August 17-19 at the Holiday Inn in Enfield, Connecticut (just south of the Massachusetts border on I-91). The guests of honor are Julie Czerneda, Robert M. Price, and Shira Lipkin; other guest include Elizabeth Bear, Emily Lewis, and…
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Readercon After-Action Report
This past weekend I was a participant at the 23rd annual Readercon convention in Burlington, Massachusetts. As always, I had a great time. The con (-vention) committee did their usual superb job of keeping everything running smoothly. These are fans who do this for fun, and yet manage to do a better job than many…
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Read About Readercon
Just as I do most summers, I'm going to be a participant at this year's Readercon. If you don't know what Readercon is, and you're interested in science fiction or fantasy literature, then you're missing what is simply the best annual meeting of its kind. This year they're working me hard on Friday, then I…
The Cambias Digression 