>>You DO know the Worldcon is going back to Melbourne in two years, don't
>>you? I ask just to double-check; it would be too much of a shame to get
>>the news too late!
>Oh dear, do I have to express my ignorance so soon after de-lurking?
>I have no idea what Worldcon is, or that it will be in Melbourne in a
>couple of years. Is these a contact for more information?. I'm
>always keen on a good talkfest!!
The World Science Fiction Convention is almost sixty years old. It is
usually in the United States over "Labor Day Weekend" (the first Monday in
September, the customary end of summer (don't get me started on why the US'
"Labor Day" is at the end of the summer and "Law Day" is May 1!!))
The Worldcon can be anywhere, though, and has been in Europe twice (that I
recall), Britain a few times, and Australia twice. Groups of fans put
together bids to have the Worldcon in their city, and the members of the
convention vote to select the future site (since Worldcon is lately around
6,000 people, the selection is three years in advance to reserve the hotel).
This year will be San Antonio, Texas; next year will be Baltimore,
Maryland; 1999 will be in Melbourne; 2000 will be here in Chicago [it
hasn't been voted on yet, but the Chicago bid is so strong it's unopposed].
Here are some URLs about Worldcon and cons in general:
<A HREF="http://worldcon.org/bids/">Worldcon & NASFIC Bids</A>
<A HREF="http://lacon3.worldcon.org/www/Bids/bids.html">Worldcon Bids and
NASFiC Bids</A>
<A HREF="http://sflovers.rutgers.edu/Web/cons.html">SF-Lovers Convention
Listings</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ddb.com/minicon33/">Minicon 33 Homepage</A>
<A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wiscon/">WisCon Homepage</A>
Here are some general fannish & fanzine URLs:
<A HREF="http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html">The New York
Review of Science Fiction Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.uic.edu/~lauramd/sf/femsf.html">Feminist Science
Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lm.com/~lmann/fan/mail/fandir.html#names">Web Version
of the Fannish E-Mail Directory</A>
<A HREF="http://www.cu-online.com/~avonruff/sfdbase.html">Internet
Speculative Fiction DataBase</A>
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<A HREF="http://cu-online.com/~avonruff/sfdbase.html">Internet Speculative
Fiction DataBase</A>
<A HREF="http://ivory.lm.com:80/~lmann/">Laurie Mann's Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.lm.com/~lmann/timebinders/tbstart.html">The Timebinders
Home Page</A>
<A HREF="http://www.arisia.org/sf.html">Arisia SF Resources</A>
<A HREF="http://sundry.hsc.usc.edu/hazel/Smofs/">Hazel's Info Files: Smofs
and Fans</A>
<A
HREF="file://sflovers.rutgers.edu/pub/sf-lovers/Web/sfrg09.html#fan-soc">Sci
ence Fiction Resource Guide: Fandom</A>
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Winners, 1953-1995</A>
<A HREF="http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/awards/nebulas/nebulas.html">Nebula
Awards, 1965-1994</A>
<A
HREF="http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house/awards/campbellmemor
ial.html">John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winners</A>
<A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wiscon/tiptree.html">The Tiptree Award</A>
<A
HREF="http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house/awards/wfa.html">Wor
ld Fantasy Award Winners</A>
<A
HREF="http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house/awards/locus.html">L
ocus Award Winners</A>
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