SF Con Report

[moon_custafer]

Home from SFContario (green_trilobite was too exhausted to stick around for the dead-dog.) A good time was had: I woke up Saturday morning with a possible story idea, I got pressed-ganged into the Masquerade for wearing my jetpack, and today wound up moderating a panel on the portrayal of disability and prosthetics in SF, due to the absence of half the projected panel members. Given the circumstances, I decided to *begin* with questions and comments from the audience, and it became a somewhat wide-ranging conversation but there was a neuroscientist in the front row and someone brought up C. L. Moore's 'Of No Woman Born' before I did and thanked me afterwards for a "lively discussion" so I think it went well.

The-guy-from-the-Readercon-incident was there, because he's not banned from cons other than Readercon. I mention this because I don't know him by sight, so late Friday night I was chatting with several people, while sensing that something was making green_trilobite uncomfortable, but didn't find out until afterwards that it was the company. But that was the only really awkward incident. Last night I looked around the Con Suite at a bunch of people of various ages talking about interesting and arcane topics while no loud music played in the background and wondered, for a moment, how this party would look to non-fans -- would they be horrified or envious? But I suppose it doesn't matter, and anyway, to assume non-fans are all of the same mind is even more of a logical fallacy than to assume it of fans.

Comments

[donald hutton (from livejournal.com)]

I think that, rather than "fan", if you use the categorisation "intellectual" your question is valid. In my experience the reaction is "horrified".