Wiscon addenda

[redbird]

I completely forgot to mention that I got to meet boxofdelights; this was not only her first Wiscon, it was her first sf con. We may have spoiled her for other things. I also didn't mention the various people who I said hello to, but little more because they were so busy, people who belong at Wiscon but don't get there very often, like thesideshow and Stu Shiffman, and bibliofile, who I kept meaning to catch up with and didn't.

I did buy a few books: Air, by Geoff Ryman (planned), Stable Strategies and Others, by Eileen Gunn, Incredible Good Fortune, poetry by Ursula Le Guin, and Uncle Boris in the Yukon, by Daniel Pinkwater. When I got home, it turned out we have a copy of that already, that cattitude had picked up, read, and dropped in a corner. adrian_turtle, if you still want this, you can claim it the next time we're in the same city.

sdn handed me a galley of the revised Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diane Duane Diana Wynne Jones, which is currently in Arlington because Cattitude and I have the first edition and Adrian doesn't. And everyone got a copy of Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania. With all that, I spent the weekend talking and reading a bit more of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

I bought one earring, a garnet stud made by Laurie Edison, for Cattitude. Adrian gave me a pair of earrings made from Scrabble tiles, which we'd discussed earlier, but we didn't get to the shop the last time I was in Arlington. I ogled a gorgeous necklace/crown made by elisem, "In the Tongue of the Beholder", but even if I liked chokers, it's too short for me. I briefly thought about asking to borrow it to wear as a crown to the fancy dress party on Sunday, but the silk salwar kameez is gold-patterned, and the necklace is in the silver I generally prefer.

Comments

Tough Guide

[timill]

Diana Wynne Jones, not Diane Duane, surely?

Re: Tough Guide

[redbird]

Yes, thank you, will fix.

Re: Tough Guide

[dduane.livejournal.com]

:) I wish I *had* written it. However, thx for the correction.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

boxofdelights is the coolest! I'm glad you got to meet her.

[heyfoureyes.livejournal.com]

It was my first sf con too!

And, I agree that it makes one spoiled! I've been looking at the panel topics in planning for other midwestern conventions, and they are by and large disappointing in comparison. They seem somewhat boring, shallow, and unsophisticated.

Wiscon

[bschilli.livejournal.com]

I always enjoy Wiscon. This year wasn't as much fun as others, but I suspect that's from the Con Crud.

I do like the astronomy panels at the Chicago cons, but that's probably because I've been interested in astronomy since I was in grade school.

Ben