And I had a reasonably good time at my first B-con, and was
very glad to meet, even when very briefly, Bill, Neil, Vicki
Hendricks, a range of people on ShortMystery including Mark
Troy and G. Miki Hayden, Joe Lansdale, and a slew of fans and
booksellers. Sorry to have missed the rest of you (and the
GUN MONKEYS pamphlet)!
A quick (invidious?) comparison to my first sf/fantasy
WorldCon, MilPhil, over Labor Day weekend, leads to a note
that BoucherCon starts its programming too damned early, but
has panels which hew to their announced topics much more
readily; has a smaller feel, since it runs about a third the
attendance, but is rather similar in format, down to too much
going on simultaneously too often (my friendly acquaintance
Douglas Winter, as Neil notes, superbly interviewing Lansdale
when they could be heard over the uproar of the Agony panel
on the other side of a removable partition, was also
simultaneous with a largely ShortMystery-populated session;
Pelecanos was up against Ed Hoch and others including Neil,
as he notes, talking about short fiction).
I must admit that the huckster with a cracked and battered
reading copy of one of MacDonald's McGees going for about a
C-note handed me a laugh, while I toted my $1-3 GM/Crest
titles of Peter Rabe, Robert Bloch (actually, ATOMS AND EVIL
was in vg+, much better than my previous copy, although THE
STAR STALKER was fair), Vin Packer, et al., from Mary Mason's
booth.
Richard Moore's suggestion of ordering the tapes of the
sessions one missed is a good one; I certainly took advantage
of the service so as to not have to miss too much, and indeed
listened to the Roszan/Pelecanos conversation as I drove back
from Virginia last night, after DC's WAMU's radio drama
package THE BIG BROADCAST faded/was interfered with by the
yuppie rock station in Philadelphia on the same frequency, in
northern Maryland. It is quite good, comparable to the
Winter/Lansdale (I also bought Hoch's GOH speech and the
"Homage to Vlad the Impaler" panel, as as much horror as
hardboiled guy, and these were two sessions I'd
missed).
TM
-----Original Message----- From:
ansmith@netdoor.com [mailto:
ansmith@netdoor.com]
> > Just got in from Washington. I had to leave
early this morning,
so I missed
> > Pelecanos' panel. As far as I know, he wasn't
at the convention
on any of
> > the other days. I did meet Todd Mason, Kevin
Burton Smith, and
Schooley
> > (though he might not remember it).
I saw you at the Lansdale panel, since he pointed you out.
That was a fun one. Lot of good discussion in there.
I missed George P.'s panel too, since I was on the Short
Story panel at the same time. But I raced upstairs to ask him
to sign a couple books as soon as I could.
All in all, a fun and outstanding weekend. I hope all the
Rara-Avans in attandence got one of the Gun Monkeys chapbook
sneak previews.
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