More thoughts on WorldCon
Jul. 27th, 2014 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusWorldCon, you are already traumatising me...
The schedule is out and I'm trying to figure out how to organise myself, which is not proving an easy task. *sigh* So much to see and do and choose from!
I've made life a little easier for myself (though missed out on things as well) by not realising that when they said the con starts on Thursday, they meant that's a whole day's worth of stuff, when I'm not actually going to be in London till mid-afternoon. Realistically, by the time I've got from St Pancras across to my hotel, dropped off my stuff and made it back to the conference centre and registered, it's probably going to be after 5pm.
I've also found my inner introvert squirming at the thought of signings and kaffeeklatsches so that gets a whole load of things off the schedule for starters. In all honesty, I'm not really sure if I want to get anything signed, not to mention I'd have to actually buy copies of one author's works if I did, since I only currently have them as ebooks. And then there's the whole 'what do you say?' dilemma, where 'I really like your books' seems not quite enough but my brain is currently struggling for anything more profound.
I keep reminding myself that I need to be realistic about the number of panels I can attend each day, especially given the size of the venues concerned, as well as my capacity to get something out of them. I also just want time to mooch around as well as the chance to have dinner with folks, but currently have nothing scheduled past 8pm anyway so there's always that.
I can't make my mind up if I want to go to the Hugo ceremony (which is Sunday night) or not but then I've voted and feel like I probably should. In case anyone is wondering, my votes were as follows:
Best Novel - Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Campbell Award - Max Gladstone
Best Novella - Catheryn Valente, Six Gun Snow White
Best Novelette - Aliette de Bodard, The Waiting Stars
Short form dramatic - Orphan Black: "Variations under Domestication"
Long form dramatic - Pacific Rim
So, fellow attendees, thoughts on manageability? How exactly are we ever going to coordinate catching up with one another, other than by sheer chance?
The schedule is out and I'm trying to figure out how to organise myself, which is not proving an easy task. *sigh* So much to see and do and choose from!
I've made life a little easier for myself (though missed out on things as well) by not realising that when they said the con starts on Thursday, they meant that's a whole day's worth of stuff, when I'm not actually going to be in London till mid-afternoon. Realistically, by the time I've got from St Pancras across to my hotel, dropped off my stuff and made it back to the conference centre and registered, it's probably going to be after 5pm.
I've also found my inner introvert squirming at the thought of signings and kaffeeklatsches so that gets a whole load of things off the schedule for starters. In all honesty, I'm not really sure if I want to get anything signed, not to mention I'd have to actually buy copies of one author's works if I did, since I only currently have them as ebooks. And then there's the whole 'what do you say?' dilemma, where 'I really like your books' seems not quite enough but my brain is currently struggling for anything more profound.
I keep reminding myself that I need to be realistic about the number of panels I can attend each day, especially given the size of the venues concerned, as well as my capacity to get something out of them. I also just want time to mooch around as well as the chance to have dinner with folks, but currently have nothing scheduled past 8pm anyway so there's always that.
I can't make my mind up if I want to go to the Hugo ceremony (which is Sunday night) or not but then I've voted and feel like I probably should. In case anyone is wondering, my votes were as follows:
Best Novel - Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Campbell Award - Max Gladstone
Best Novella - Catheryn Valente, Six Gun Snow White
Best Novelette - Aliette de Bodard, The Waiting Stars
Short form dramatic - Orphan Black: "Variations under Domestication"
Long form dramatic - Pacific Rim
So, fellow attendees, thoughts on manageability? How exactly are we ever going to coordinate catching up with one another, other than by sheer chance?
