As I said in my last post, Today I get to the fun stuff at Worldcon. But first, a
couple of weird things.
In the hotel I stayed at, look at what the French call body
wash. I get that things get lost in translation, but didn’t any of the
English-speaking staff notice?
Is this a joke?
And then there was the one-armed chromium torture device. It
dispersed water anywhere from cold to lukewarm.
And it was hard to wash off the gel douche
with lukewarm water
But the convention had numerous workshops, readings by
authors, and autograph sessions. In one of the latter I spoke to my favorite
author, John Hemry, who sometimes goes by the pen name Jack Campbell.
I had a question about the character of Morgan in his Lost Stars series. She’s the sort of
person who can do anything and assassinate anyone. I asked, “Is she based on
any one person?” He said with a chuckle, “Not anyone I know.”
A rising star in the fantasy field is Kendare Blake. After
she read from one of her stories, I asked for a photo.
She’s known for her Goddess
War series. What I like about what I’ve read so far is that she understands
how goddesses like Athena were portrayed in Greek mythology, then expands on
them from there. Other writers stick in names of characters from mythology into
their stories without much of a feel for what the old stories were like.
The Hugo Awards were disappointing. A number of people voted
for “no award” in categories like Best Short Story. I don’t know why I would go
to the Hugos again.
I didn’t have time to take many costume photos. But here’s
one of a female Vulcan.
So that was it. Only one day at Worldcon.
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