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  "thread": {
    "id": 3393,
    "subject": "WorldCon and the Gene Wolfe convention circuit future",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2002-08-02T18:48:11+00:00",
    "last": "2002-08-02T22:38:27+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0208-1523@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-08-02T18:48:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) WorldCon and the Gene Wolfe convention circuit future",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Hello there everybody.\n\nJust got an update on WorldCon today.  They are about 1000 members below\nwhere they were expecting to be at this point (the event starts August 29).\nIt will likely be a smaller WorldCon than seen in recent times.  (Is this\ndue to post 9/11 travel decline or the graying of sf fandom, or both, I\nwonder?)\n\nI'm going there mainly because Gene Wolfe is going to be there.  Of course,\nthere is no absolute guarantee he will be able to make it, but he has\nmembership and all that.  (And Vernor Vinge is Guest of Honor, which I find\ninteresting.)\n\nNow then, I don't want to scare people, but only tell the facts as I know\nthem. Gene Wolfe is 70-something years old and he didn't go to any\nconventions last year.  Then they (Gene and his wife) decided to go to\nconventions this year (Horror Con, World Con, and World Fantasy Con), and\nthey plan to go to conventions every year until they cannot, so when they\nnext stop going to cons, they really will stop for good.\n\nSo if you would like to meet Gene Wolfe at a convention, I urge you to do\nit =this= year.  WorldCon is in San Jose, WFC is in Minneapolis (iirc) in a\ncouple of months.\n\nPersonally I'd like to see some of the people around here in the flesh at\nWorldCon, but that's just selfish.  Altruistically I want Gene Wolfe's fans\nto meet him, and the window of opportunity is drawing to a close.\n\n=mantis="
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0208-1527@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Josh Geller",
        "address": "dclxvi at dclxvi.best.vwh.net"
      },
      "date": "2002-08-02T22:38:27+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) WorldCon and the Gene Wolfe convention circuit future",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0208-1523@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "I'll definitely be there.\n\nJ.\n\n___"
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          "text": "On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nHello there everybody.\n\nJust got an update on WorldCon today.  They are about 1000 members below\nwhere they were expecting to be at this point (the event starts August 29).\nIt will likely be a smaller WorldCon than seen in recent times.  (Is this\ndue to post 9/11 travel decline or the graying of sf fandom, or both, I\nwonder?)\n\nI'm going there mainly because Gene Wolfe is going to be there.  Of course,\nthere is no absolute guarantee he will be able to make it, but he has\nmembership and all that.  (And Vernor Vinge is Guest of Honor, which I find\ninteresting.)\n\nNow then, I don't want to scare people, but only tell the facts as I know\nthem. Gene Wolfe is 70-something years old and he didn't go to any\nconventions last year.  Then they (Gene and his wife) decided to go to\nconventions this year (Horror Con, World Con, and World Fantasy Con), and\nthey plan to go to conventions every year until they cannot, so when they\nnext stop going to cons, they really will stop for good.\n\nSo if you would like to meet Gene Wolfe at a convention, I urge you to do\nit =this= year.  WorldCon is in San Jose, WFC is in Minneapolis (iirc) in a\ncouple of months.\n\nPersonally I'd like to see some of the people around here in the flesh at\nWorldCon, but that's just selfish.  Altruistically I want Gene Wolfe's fans\nto meet him, and the window of opportunity is drawing to a close.\n\n=mantis=\n\n\n\n--"
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      ]
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