I'm at Worldcon!

[seawasp]

Well, to be accurate at the moment I'm in my hotel room at Hotel@MIT (Room 408, if anyone cares). I hope and trust that my wife is going to read this -- I love you! I'm safe!

Worldcon is... well, big. Even now, on First Night, I saw LOTS of people. There is a Doc Smith exhibit that, literally, brought tears to my eyes. It's silly, but given the influence the man had on my life, this exhibit was practically a religious shrine; I gave the very pleasant gentleman in charge of it (Stephen, IIRC) copies of DK and Mountain Magic just for having such a wonderful exhibit up. I heard some of the Pratchett Roast (alas, I've never found any of his stuff particularly captivating).

I've met a number of people already that I know from online -- either Usenet, Livejournal/Blogs, or both (Charlie Stross [author, hugo nominee, and long-time Net resident], PNH, CKS, Chad "OilCan" Orzel, Kate Nevpeu (I hope I spelled that right, I probably didn't), Dhole, Filker Dave, SHSilver, and others). I hope to meet quite a few more.

One really wierd event: twice, in the hallway, I saw an old gentleman who looked EXACTLY like Hal Clement. And whenever I looked for him again, he'd vanished.

SPOooooOOOooKy.

I put a signup sheet for my game up in the gaming room; it gives signups a choice between a high fantasy game "Fire and Justice" (set on my regular FRP world of Zarathan, mentioned a few times in DK) and a Modern Day Wierd game "Awakening", set in the same world as Digital Knight and shortly after the events of said novel.

Tomorrow, if I have signups, will be "character generation and world familiarization" time. Saturday and/or Sunday I will actually run.

I have other more important missions as well. Firstly I must venture to the Dealer's Room and see if they have Good Stuff; I have specific things I must get, if they exist any more. Then I have to go to some panels -- one that I absolutely must get to is one that Toni (from Baen) is on and which deals with how new professional writers can network in the SF world. And I do intend to attend the Hugos -- after all, why come to a Worldcon and miss one of its unique aspects?

Comments

[cateagle.livejournal.com]

Considering that "Doc" was among my first intro's to SF, I quite understand your feeling (a British paperback you should look for is The Best of E. E. "Doc" Smith (Futura, 1975), ISBN: 0-8600-7873-6

best wishes for an enjoyable Worldcon,
Mad Engineer

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Hm. Hal Clement haunting Worldcon?

This calls for a filk!

(brained burned on Giants game. Will tackle it tomorrow.)

still trying to get ahold of you

[animejpop.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind emailing (chrono@alum.rpi.edu) or aiming (djwilsey) sometime, it would be appreciated. Just wanted to talk about the upcoming cosplay picnic with you!

Re: still trying to get ahold of you

[seawasp]

I can't email from here, but I think LJ will automatically send a copy of this reply to you. I'm not sure if I can make the picnic, but I will see.

Game sign up

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't see your sign up sheet until 8:00. Since it was a 6:30 sign up, and I didn't see you, I assume you went elsewhere.

I'll be online until 9:00, but I'll probably be back in my room by 10:30, when the parties get too crowded for me. {A few people, nice, comfortable conversation. Many people, crowd, stress.]

Shana Rosenfeld

[kengr]

Don't take this the wrong way, but as much as I enjoy your stuff, there's no way in hell I'd want to be in that "Awakening" game. :-)

I have...

[seawasp]

... a book by that title, but it's HC and from NESFA...

Re: Game sign up

[seawasp]

Alas, obviously it wasn't destined to be. I hung around off and on for quite a while, and almost no one showed.

If you're on Baen's Bar, you could join the PBEM I have volunteered to run in my conference "Paradigms Lost", though.

Really?

[seawasp]

... I'd love to, myself. Unfortunately I know way too much, so to speak.

Re: Really?

[kengr]

You just haven't sufficiently developed your "Evil Author" skillz yet. :-)

Heck, my current story has had several characters go places I didn't expect. One of them is going to wind up with his own story at this rate.

Don't expect to see any of them in the slushpile though. :-)

Re: I have...

[cateagle.livejournal.com]

Well have to compare notes sometime and see if the contents are the same. *sigh* If I ever get time to get back to the Bar. I *need* 36-hour days, that's all there is to it. :)