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ksmithFolks are posting their Wiscon schedules. This brings out the melancholy, because I won't be attending this year.
This is the first Wiscon I will have missed since 1996. That was Wiscon 20, which was a wowser. I hadn't published at that point. Hadn't even finished CODE. Complete Wannabe. All the previous GoHs attended. Catherine Asaro's first book, Primary Inversion, had just been released, and Lois Bujold and others were wondering aloud whether it would be accepted as Hard SF by the Official Hard SF Designators. Their feeling seemed to be that yes, PI was Hard SF, but they seemed to expect a fight. There was a general sense of them sitting back and waiting to see what shook out, but maybe that was just my perception.
I attended an Ursula Le Guin reading, at which she read portions of the work that later became, iirc, Changing Planes. Too much other stuff to remember. I only recall that I thought that all Wiscons would be like that, until 21 disabused me of that notion. But I got used to the more laid back, usual thing. Attended every year since except for, well, this year.
I have an idea of what the attendees will experience. There will be a distinct, never-ending buzz. You'll feel like you're standing on some summit, overlooking a heretofore unseen vista. It sounds corny, but, well, tough.
It will be very special.
This is the first Wiscon I will have missed since 1996. That was Wiscon 20, which was a wowser. I hadn't published at that point. Hadn't even finished CODE. Complete Wannabe. All the previous GoHs attended. Catherine Asaro's first book, Primary Inversion, had just been released, and Lois Bujold and others were wondering aloud whether it would be accepted as Hard SF by the Official Hard SF Designators. Their feeling seemed to be that yes, PI was Hard SF, but they seemed to expect a fight. There was a general sense of them sitting back and waiting to see what shook out, but maybe that was just my perception.
I attended an Ursula Le Guin reading, at which she read portions of the work that later became, iirc, Changing Planes. Too much other stuff to remember. I only recall that I thought that all Wiscons would be like that, until 21 disabused me of that notion. But I got used to the more laid back, usual thing. Attended every year since except for, well, this year.
I have an idea of what the attendees will experience. There will be a distinct, never-ending buzz. You'll feel like you're standing on some summit, overlooking a heretofore unseen vista. It sounds corny, but, well, tough.
It will be very special.
