RE: Worldcon 2019?
08-18-2019, 12:34 PM (This post was last modified: 08-18-2019, 12:48 PM by Dartz.)
08-18-2019, 12:34 PM (This post was last modified: 08-18-2019, 12:48 PM by Dartz.)
(08-17-2019, 09:04 PM)LynnInDenver Wrote: I don't recall having the panel entry problem at Denvention 3 (2008 WorldCon), but definitely it had a different feel from other conventions I've been to. Less Big Media convention (StarFest, Nan Desu Kan), and closer in feel to Mile Hi Con (our local small Literary SciFI/Fantasy con), but with a definite international and business air to it. Well, to be expected, networking between authors and other professional sorts tends to occur at a WorldCon at a scale that you wouldn't expect at a lot of other conventions.
I had the weirdest conversation in the bar where a conversation on Chernobyl where I explained to someone why the reactor exploded had an actual nuclear physicist who was in the bar at the same time and just happened to overhear, and who had read a translation of the original Soviet Documentation told me I'd gotten it bang on.
This seems like a very unlikely thing to happen anywhere else in the universe
Also managed to burn an entire roll and a half of film at the SCA demo.... And it was a good film stock too. Hopefully something came out of that
Just waiting for the Hugo's now
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.