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Grex > Scifi > #121: Chicon 2000, the World Science Fiction Convention | |
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krj
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Chicon 2000, the World Science Fiction Convention
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Apr 23 16:30 UTC 2000 |
The 2000 World Science Fiction Convention is just a few hours down the
road, in Chicago. I thought I'd start an item to see if anyone was
going. Leslie and I are probably not going, since she's probably spending
the summer singing in school at Aspen and we're unlikely to want to make
a trip as soon as she gets back.
The convention is scheduled for August 31 - September 4.
At this point attending memberships are hellaciously expensive:
$150 before July 15, $195 at the door.
It feels odd for us not to be going to a Worldcon this close to home;
I guess we really are gafiated.
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drew
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response 1 of 11:
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Apr 23 21:53 UTC 2000 |
Tempting, but this one's a bit too expensive. If I ever encounter hard
evidence that money can once again be a renewable resource before then, I
might consider it.
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robh
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response 2 of 11:
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Apr 24 22:36 UTC 2000 |
I'm already committed to attend a pagan festival in the
Ottawa area that weekend - even more amusing, since that
will be a longer drive for me than Worldcon!
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void
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response 3 of 11:
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Apr 26 05:08 UTC 2000 |
$200 for a con? just to get in? sheesh.
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albaugh
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response 4 of 11:
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Apr 26 07:31 UTC 2000 |
Why do you think they call it a "con"?! :-)
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krj
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response 5 of 11:
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Apr 26 15:48 UTC 2000 |
Worldcon membership rates have far outstripped inflation. My first worldcon,
1974, the advance membership was $5 and at-the-door was $10.
Of course the worldcon itself has gotten pretty inflated in the inter-
vening years.
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dbratman
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response 6 of 11:
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May 9 00:20 UTC 2000 |
I'm sorry to see the Midwestern types aren't going. I'm in California,
and I'm going, even though I don't really have any vacation time for it.
But that's not to say I'm a dedicated attendee. This was more a case
of "I've already got a membership, and I haven't been to a Worldcon in
3 years, and I like Chicago, and I can afford the plane fare and hotel
room, so why not?"
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mneme
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response 7 of 11:
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May 12 03:07 UTC 2000 |
That is the other thing, of course -- quite a number of us bought Chicon
memberships when they were *cough* cheap. However, the large reason they've
gotten -so- high is because of the increases in hotel rates, as far as I can
tell.
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krj
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response 8 of 11:
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May 14 18:12 UTC 2000 |
In our case it's been five years since we were at a Worldcon: Glasgow in
1995 was our most recent one. I think the last convention of any sort
we went to was the Wiscon which David Bratman also attended, back maybe
three years ago. It's amazing how effective Leslie's school and performance
schedule have been in knocking down conventions we want to attend:
missing this year's Corflu made us very sad, since it was in Seattle,
a city whose fandom I have long felt special ties to.
Curiously, I did have a dream in which we attended this year's Chicago
worldcon. I could almost see us making a last minute decision to
drive out there; but the con is *after* Leslie's school term starts.
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dbratman
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response 9 of 11:
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May 17 18:05 UTC 2000 |
Ken, I'm miffed at having had to miss this year's Corflu too. Minor
medical problem, first time that's ever forced me to cancel a con
attendance plan.
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krj
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response 10 of 11:
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Aug 4 21:49 UTC 2000 |
Well, it's almost here. Reading people's plans in the rec.arts.sf.fandom
newsgroup has me going "Wahhhhhhhhhh......" and thinking about driving
overnight to Chicago just to crash the rasff party.
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mneme
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response 11 of 11:
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Aug 29 20:58 UTC 2000 |
There's a rasff party? I supose I should drop back into rasff long enough
to go...
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