Pages Tagged “Worldcon”
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- Convention Inflation
Next year’s WonderCon tickets are available now, and SDCC goes on sale next week. I noticed something interesting about the WonderCon price, because ten years ago, I compared a lot of convention prices. How do they stack up a decade later? WonderCon 2018 costs the same as Comic-Con 2008 did: $75. (WonderCon in 2008 was […]
- Chicon 7: Something for Everyone at Chicago’s Worldcon
Chicon put on a great scifi/fantasy convention this year, proving that there’s still life in the genre. Plus it was fun to visit Chicago for the first time.
- Conventions and Distance
You can commute to nearby conventions, drive to others, and fly to even more. Once you have to fly anyway, destination matters more than distance.
- Comic Book Convention Prices Compared
On a per-day basis, Comic-Con isn’t actually that expensive compared to other big conventions like Gen Con and Dragon*Con.
- Finding Back Issues: Then and Now
I’ve had parts of this in draft form for at least 2 years. Last night, while brushing my teeth, I decided to pick it up with a new approach. This morning, I jotted down a couple of notes. And earlier this evening I saw Comics Should Be Good’s post, Where do you buy your comics?—and […]
- Worldcon Los Angeles / LACon IV: Through an Orange Haze
Despite a summer cold, I was determined to spend a day at Worldcon in Anaheim. Robots, space troubleshooting, future historians, chaos, Pluto and more.
- Pluto Needs Rocks
A bit of astronomy humor from WorldCon: Help donate rocks to Pluto so it can increase its mass, clear its orbit, and once again qualify as a planet!
- Pining for the Fnords
I’m about halfway through The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and the most apt description is, if you’ll pardon the language, a mindfuck. Once the writing settles into a coherent structure (or perhaps once the reader is attuned to it), the mind starts noticing connections. Everywhere. It’s as if it was written specifically to induce apophenia. The most […]