Bob Schroeck Wrote:ISTR, way back at the start of Fenspace, that the Conventions were essentionally WorldCon moved off-world, but I think that idea fell by the wayside pretty quickly. That said, I think that there should be at least one WorldCon held in Fenspace, if only because groundside fans would demand it. Of course, American fans probably couldn't attend, at least not without considerable government attention paid to their actions, but still...What I expect is that a lot of Fen who attended a Convention, then went back, found themselves on various watch lists, and in many cases, the Do Not Fly list, on account of noises about "terrorists" and "fen" in the same sentence. It would have reduced after the "detente" of the 2014 treaty, but a lot of them would have had to spend some years trying to disentangle themselves from being on that list. Odds are good, though, that the list was effectively dropped entirely, if only because a number of Fen would have "quietly" ignored it in arranging to transport people who wanted to visit, especially once Fen could regularly land in America with their cars again.
Something about "leaking like a sieve".
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