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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2005-03-05 03:00 pm
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Book oriented SF conventions in Canada
I am appallingly ignorant of conventions in my own nation. If I were looking for something roughly equivilent to Minicon or Boskone, preferably in the urban corridor, what cons should I be looking at?
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Now, Boston and Minneapolis don't seem much alike. For one thing, the MPLS airport doesn't resemble a converted bus station, nor have I ever feared for my life landing there, whereas Logan scares the hell out of me.
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MSP is trying its best to become a bus station. One of these days, it will succeed.
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After a few times flying direct, I realized that small aircraft maximize the things I hate most about flying so I took to going via Chicago, Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. Once they wanted to send me there via Seattle, which seemed like an odd route to use.
For some reason, every flight I took to MPL hit bad weather over Kitchener.
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I have, I will admit, never flown into MSP and left the airport by ground transportation. This lack will be rectified later this month.
My first con was Boskone in 1987. Er.
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However, the con itself is a lot of fun.
Besides, how can you pass up a con that has a chocolate tasting, scotch tasting, wine tasting and a beefcake/cheescake charity event?
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I don't drink alcohol and as part of my "Let's at least try to keep my weight measured in three digits" I no longer eat any sweet I did not make from scratch myself.
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I'm not disagreeing with you in the least. :)
I don't drink alcohol and as part of my "Let's at least try to keep my weight measured in three digits" I no longer eat any sweet I did not make from scratch myself.
Hmm... can't think of anything else offhand that distinguishes Ad Astra from any other literary con, then. It's still a good time, though.
(Though you don't actually have to eat the cheesecake at the beefcake/cheesecake event; you could just pay $5 to have some cute young thing sit on your lap for five minutes, and the money would go to Casey House. I don't think they care so long as it stays within the bounds of legality, decency, and comfort of the servers. And at Ad Astra, sometimes I think "decency" is a relative term. ;) )
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I was planning to take my fourteen year old son to Ad Astra, would you say it was inappropriate for him?
I've never seen anything like what you describe at British or US cons.
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Not exactly a Minicon or Boskone, but mighty oaks from little walnuts grow, or whatever.
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It's not difficult. Someone just has to make the time to do it.