Comments on: WorldCon Mid-Convention Report

By: Rani

Rani — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:18:34 +0000

Hey David,
Just came back to Tel Aviv yesterday so I just saw your post now, but it was a pleasure to meet you and all the other people you mentioned and more. It was a cool con and I was sad when it was over. I do hope we will meet in future cons (worldfantasy 2007 here I come) and maybe even sooner.

By: Thom Stanley

Thom Stanley — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:02:28 +0000

Heh.

Next time you’re around Cincinnati for a con, lemme know. I’d love to shake your hand.

Note: I refuse to do any communique from a cell phone or super-portable tableaux computer. For said very reason.

Now… Let’s pull a Pratchett on him! Someone get over there and strap him to his chair, plop a laptop in front of him, and force him to keep writing!

And on an aside: Am I the only one in this thread that is NOT a published writer (yet…)?

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:52:34 +0000

Of course, I have now completely forgotten what I was going to say in the comments that were zapped by my Treo. Beastly device.

Paul: Hugo acceptance speech? While we’re thinking big, why not just say Nobel Prize acceptance speech?

Kate: Rani Graff was, indeed, hanging out in the Hilton bar much of the time.

By: Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:37:48 +0000

My biggest disappointment in the convention was that I never made it to the bar.

And of course, now I’m really sorry I missed the Pyr panel!

Where did you run across Rani Graff? I met him in Israel earlier in the summer, but did not see him at all at the con.

By: Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:33:31 +0000

It was a pleasure to meet you this weekend. The next big public speaking ordeal for you will of course be your Hugo acceptance speech next year. I await that with eagerness for several reasons.

By: Fiona Avery

Fiona Avery — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:41:26 +0000

Why does that happen … with the Treos, I mean? Because I too have a Treo and I too get my entries cut off brutally just where they were getting good. And where does the rest of our entry go anyway? Are they receiving our last part of the sentence somewhere in another galaxy?

SFX NOISE: tcky-tcky-tcky-on-keyboard ==> Thom: So glad you liked the book! Proof pos

SFX NOISE: HIC! … itive that I did actually finish that book and I didn’t send the last half of it into the ether of space because of some technical Treo glitch!

(I wanted to finish that for you … because it’s like when I leave half my paragraph in a rough draft unfinished on purpose. I have now trained myself like Pavlov’s Dog to finish any sentence I see half-uttered…)

Nice to meet you this weekend! Sorry that every time I came to chat with you I was dragged away by salsa dancers and shiny objects. I tried! (I also don’t exaggerate…)

Best,
Fiona

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:54:56 +0000

*Sigh*. So now I know why you shouldn’t type blog comments on your Treo in an airport. They get cut off. More when I get back to D.C.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:50:04 +0000

Stephenson: You are a saint, and great meeting you too by the way. Send me your e-mail address, hey?

Gary: Perhaps we should form a Destructive Authors Union and charge dues.

Thom: So glad you liked the book! Proof pos

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:39:09 +0000

Boy I wish I was there. It’d be nice to meet people face to face for a change rather than always knocking on their inboxes.

Not to worry about the public speaking bit. I’m sure you’ll get the knack of it in time. Microphones have a very powerful dumbing down effect on your linguistic ability until you get used to them.

By: Thom Stanley

Thom Stanley — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:05:31 +0000

Just a fan. But Infoquake was SUPERB. It’s one book, aside from Cryptonomicon, that I originally picked up on a whim at the library, read in three days (no small feat with that book), then promptly went out and bought…if only to do my part to ensure a sequel. I’m beyond ecstatic with the prose itself…and SF geeks and writers be damned at the expense of your presentation! Congratulations on your emergence. Hopefully your little con-faux-pas will pique enough interest to entrench a (hopefully) long and glorious career!