First Worldcon post today

My friend and NYRSF staffer Alex Donald is driving up from Boston to Montreal and would love to have riders. Caveat: He is driving up on Thursday and coming back on Sunday.

If you're interested, drop me an e-mail (kjm@panix.com) and I'll pass the info along pronto.

Worldcon: My schedule

Here are the events I'm committed to be at. The panels I'm on all look excellent.

( Comics and Magazines )

See you there!

Saving the Semiprozine

Last year, at Denvention, the WSFA voted to eliminate the Best Semiprozine Hugo. A second vote will be held this year--probably at the Saturday session of the Worldcon Business Meeting, 10 AM--to ratify or rescind the earlier vote. I encourage everyone who reads this and is attending Worldcon to attend and vote your conscience.

Before I put in my own comments, let me point to Neil Clarke's Save the Semiprozine Hugo blog/website, especially the four summary posts here, here, here, and here.

Here's my take on it.

( Cut for length, but I hope it's interesting )

In summary:

The Best Semiprozine Hugo serves good purposes. The arguments against it, while not trivial, are not compelling, and mostly seem to be addressing perceived problems that either don't exist or are better handled in other, more targeted, ways. Save the Semiprozine Hugo!

(This has been an emphatically unpaid public announcement.)

a driving force

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--Jesse Taylor