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Steampunk wheelchair
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From Windycon.
Windycon on Saturday
mia_mcdavid and I are continuing to have a great time at Windycon. The theme of the convention is Steampunk
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Windycon
Mia and I are again at Windycon, a Chicagoland science fiction convention. We had a fast and easy drive down. We had dinner with some old friends from local fandom.
The convention looks good. Once again, we were impressed by the Dealers’ Room. Though Windycon is much smaller than Convergence, the biggest SF event in Minnesota, there are many more booksellers here. There is also excellent science programming. It is our idea of what a con should be.
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“To Serve Man”
A note on deCamp’s Lest Darkness Fall
Hand cut dovetails
Convergence 2009
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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