The real Worldcon post
Sep. 9th, 2010 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysFor me, Aussiecon 4 was all about talking to people. People I know well, people I hadn't seen in ages and new folk who I met for the first time at this convention. Some people I saw regularly throughout the con while others I only caught up with right at the end. And yet, there were people I know were there who I didn't see at all. I'm not sure how that happens, as it wasn't that big an event - different modes of operation I guess. Next time eh?
I spent as much time as I dared in the dealers area. As it was I filled my luggage with books and only got below weight limits because a friend brought some of them back for me. This despite giving myself a daily book budget and determinedly only buying books from small presses who don't distribute to outlets over here. I didn't want to buy anything I could have bought at home. So Andromeda Spaceways, Twelfth Planet, Ticonderoga, Mirrordanse, Coeur de Lion, Eneit, Morragon and others are going to occupy a good chunk of my reading time in the months to come.
Didn't get to all that many items on the programme apart from the big ticket items (opening/closing ceremony, masquerade, Hugos, GOH speeches). The few panels I did get to were a mixed bag. The low light being a certain NZ fan who was much more offensive than anything said at the masquerade (I was there and I still don't know what the fuss was about). There were some good points too, including a panel on the future of short fiction where Cory Doctorow said something so witty and profound that I thought at the time that I must share with everybody. The problem is that I promptly forgot what it was.
While I'm noting embarrassments, KSR in his speech took the time to make it clear that he does not climb mountains despite what it says in wikipedia. He might more accurately be described as a cross-country hiker. Why did he take the time to mention that - well have a look near the end of the bio in the souvenir book. And just who wrote that bio? Aye, well, umm. In my defence, that factoid appears in other places other than wikipedia. I didn't actually expect the article to appear in the souvenir book - I wrote it for the web site and adapted it for the first PR. It was an advertising piece and I would have written something rather different if I had known where it would end up. Still, d'oh.
So what else? The usual stuff really - went to a few parties, looked at upcoming cons (most of which I want to go to but have to get a job first), looked at the art show, ate too much junk food and got too little sleep. Looking forward to the next one.
I spent as much time as I dared in the dealers area. As it was I filled my luggage with books and only got below weight limits because a friend brought some of them back for me. This despite giving myself a daily book budget and determinedly only buying books from small presses who don't distribute to outlets over here. I didn't want to buy anything I could have bought at home. So Andromeda Spaceways, Twelfth Planet, Ticonderoga, Mirrordanse, Coeur de Lion, Eneit, Morragon and others are going to occupy a good chunk of my reading time in the months to come.
Didn't get to all that many items on the programme apart from the big ticket items (opening/closing ceremony, masquerade, Hugos, GOH speeches). The few panels I did get to were a mixed bag. The low light being a certain NZ fan who was much more offensive than anything said at the masquerade (I was there and I still don't know what the fuss was about). There were some good points too, including a panel on the future of short fiction where Cory Doctorow said something so witty and profound that I thought at the time that I must share with everybody. The problem is that I promptly forgot what it was.
While I'm noting embarrassments, KSR in his speech took the time to make it clear that he does not climb mountains despite what it says in wikipedia. He might more accurately be described as a cross-country hiker. Why did he take the time to mention that - well have a look near the end of the bio in the souvenir book. And just who wrote that bio? Aye, well, umm. In my defence, that factoid appears in other places other than wikipedia. I didn't actually expect the article to appear in the souvenir book - I wrote it for the web site and adapted it for the first PR. It was an advertising piece and I would have written something rather different if I had known where it would end up. Still, d'oh.
So what else? The usual stuff really - went to a few parties, looked at upcoming cons (most of which I want to go to but have to get a job first), looked at the art show, ate too much junk food and got too little sleep. Looking forward to the next one.
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Date: 2010-09-19 01:43 am (UTC)But when you come face to face with a "real" alpine mountain climber with the crampons, ropes, pitons, ice axe etc, who climb bigger snow covered peaks, you know that it is a label that you shouldn't take on yourself. I suspect KSR is embarrassed in the face of being mistaken for this type of "real" mountain climber.