Capricon

Jeff Wilson · 20 Jan 2012, 04:46 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:46:18 -0600
Subject: (urth) Capricon
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Message-ID: <4F18F19A.4070402 at clueland.com>

On 1/19/2012 11:54 AM, James Wynn wrote:
> On a related note, at Capricon 32 in Wheeling, IL (just outside of
> Chicago), there's going to be a panel with Gene and Cory Doctorow
> (excellent!):
> http://www.kristine-smith.com/index.php/2012/01/capricon-schedule/
>
> Ironically, Gene has not treated as a superstar at the Chicago
> cons...which makes the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame event so
> significant. So it is possible to actually have a normal conversation
> with him.
> (hint) Don't give him a book. He gets these all the time, and he says he
> doesn't get a chance to read for pure pleasure anymore (ala the book
> forger in "Peace").

Bread and salt, perhaps.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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