I had promised some final thoughts on my first Worldcon, and in the nearly three weeks since it ended I’ve had plenty of time to ruminate and absorb other people’s con reports.
First of all, it was a great lot of fun! My girlfriend and I had an absolute blast, and are already making a list [...]
NOTE: I tried to post this yesterday, but my web host seemed to go down. Hence, this is a day late.
The morning started off with sleeping in a bit—there were no 9:00 AM panels that grabbed our interest more than sleep did, and so it was at 10:00 AM that we hit up the “Movements [...]
Sunday evening was the main event—the Hugo Awards presentation. Before that, being human beings of a hungry sort, we decided to seek out food.
This proved to be more problematic that we could have imagined. We first decided to go back to Le Steak Frites, but found them to be booked full until 8:30 or later, [...]
The fourth day of Worldcon was also a big one, and quite full.
We started at 9 AM once again, with a panel on “How Not to be a Jerk Online”. I went to this because John Scalzi—whose blog and work I am a fan of—was one of the panelists, and I suspected it was a [...]
After a quick lunch, my girlfriend had hoped to take in the panel on “Montreal Local History”, but it was apparently cancelled. I headed to “Building Realistic Worlds”, but it was so full that there wasn’t even space to stand at the back of the room, so I went to my other option, “How Are [...]
Day 3 of Worldcon was a very panel-heavy day for us.
We started with “Writing for the Non-Adult”, which had a nice mix of panelists that played off each other well, and talked about the difficulties of writing for children and young adults, both in terms of craft and the market. This included elements such as [...]
When last we left our heroes, they were heading back to the Con for the Neil Gaiman signing, tickets to which they had acquired earlier that day. Arriving at 3:30 PM (for the 4:00 signing), there was already a massive line of ticketholders ahead of us. So, we had a half hour wait before the [...]
This was a long day, very full of delightful things.
The morning started early, as we went to line up to get tickets for the Neil Gaiman signing. We arrived at about 8:30, and (thankfully) the line was still pretty small then. We got moved around a little bit, but by 9:10 they started handing out [...]
Oi! It is early on the second day of Worldcon, so I thought I’d post about the first day, as promised.
The first thing I noticed about Worldcon was the scale. It’s big. Very big. I mean, granted, I have little basis for comparison, other than Ad Astra, with was a more local/regional con, but I [...]
So, my previously-mentioned plan to read all my 2008-purchased books in time to make Hugo nominations did not come to fruition. I got through a few, read parts of a few others, and just guessed on the rest. The final list came out some time ago, and voting closes July 3rd. My current plan is [...]