CompuServe Messages

I'm at those things for business, Ed, and usually everything that's not taken up by the family (who travel with me) is all business there. It really doesn't matter what city (or country) they're in. They're different than the regionals, where you're just attending or performing. Real work goes on behind the glitter of the worldcon. Most worldcons make those kinds of puns, although some, like LACon, are dull. This is, I think, the first one in San Francisco; prior ones were in Berkeley/Oakland, when things were smaller and hotels like the Claremont could be used. Ah, nostalgia…. The 1968 worldcon was at the Claremont in Berkeley the same weekend as the Berkeley Riots. Trying to have fun with the waft of tear gas in the air…. Worst named worldcon, by acclamation, was Phoenix in '78, which called itself IguanaCon.