Worldcon day three
Yesterday (Friday) was very busy, but very enjoyable. It started with an excellent 10:00 a.m. panel [note to self: stop agreeing to do 10:00 a.m. panels] on "Giving Good Interview," moderated by the wonderful Evo Terra from the Slice of Sci-Fi podcast. After, I was approached by the producer of Escape Pod, who actually had a contract and check for me for doing a podcast of my short story "The Shoulders of Giants."
Then it was off to lunch with old friend Roger MacBride Allen -- a long-standing Worldcon tradition for Rog and me, during which we catch each other up on our so-called careers, and discuss the state of the field.
After that, I wandered the dealers' room, and had a nice five-minute chat with BarBara Luna, who had played Captain's Woman Marlena Moreau in the classic Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror." She's still stunning at 67. Later in the day, I had second-row seats for the "Women of Star Trek" panel, featuring BarBara, Susie Plakson, Marina Sirtis, and Chase Masterson, which was a blast -- all four are really witty.
I had to leave that to attend my kaffeeklatch, at which a tableful of people sat with me for an hour to just chat informally; it was great.
In the dealers' room, I saw a prototype of the MasterReplica's 33-inch Enterprise from classic Trek -- they're making 2,000 of them, and they sell for US$1,199. It was beautiful, and I'm trying to decide if I want one (and where I'd put it if I did get one).
Then it was dinner with high-school buddy Asbed Bedrossian and his wife Laura, poolside at the Marriott.
In the evening, I escorted new Asimov's writer Susan Forest (one of my writing students) to the Asimov's / Analog party, and to the very-hard-to-find Tor party, and I made the rounds to a lot of other parties. I didn't get to bed until 2:30.
Denver beat Chicago for the right to hold the 2008 Worldcon, in very close balloting.
Well, it's time for another day ... :)
5 Comments:
Better hurry I think MR is selling the Enterprise fast.
BTW, do you have a gut feel who about whom the Hugo for best novel will go to?
Hi, Lou. It should go to Robert Charles Wilson for Spin; it probably will go to George R.R. Martin, though.
Good luck to you and RCW!
Let's hear it for Denver! With all of the improvements that have been made to downtown, the 2008 event should be great. I know everyone here in Denver, myself included, can't wait.
And, of course, you'll get to enjoy some of that in a couple of months. Let's hope we don't have one of our late October blizzards...
If I had the cash and the floor space, Rob...not to mention the payroll to keep it in presentable shape! :-)
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