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L.A.Con IV 64Th World Science Fiction Convention August 23-27, 2006 L.A.con IV 64th World Science Fiction Convention August 23-27, 2006 There’s got to be a better way to get rid of kitty litter! Progress Report #2 February 2005 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 Page 2 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 L.A.con IV P.O.Box 8442 Van Nuys, CA 91409-8442 www.laconiv.org [email protected] Guests of Honor Connie Willis Author James Gurney Artist Howard DeVore Fan Frankie Thomas Special Table of Contents Contact Information 3 Facilities 3 Staff and Committee 4 PR #3 Ad Rates 4 Reflections on Worldcons by Robert Silverberg 6 Tom Corbett, Space Cadet by Milt Stevens 11 De Saltu Ad Astra by Charles Lee Jackson II 13 Student Contest 18 Facilities Membership Map 20 Membership Rates 21 Anaheim Convention Center Installment Plan 21 www.anaheim.net/conventioncenter Membership Stats 21 Membership List 22 The Anaheim Hilton www.anaheim.hilton.com Art Credits: Steve Stiles: Cover, Page 6 The Anaheim Marriott Brad Foster: Pages 3, 4 www.anaheim.marriott.com Alexis Gilliland: Page 10 Ray Nelson: Pages 8, 9 “Worldcon,” “World Science Fiction Convention,” and “Hugo Awards” are registered service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. Page 3 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 Staff and Committee Chairman’s Division Christian B. McGuire Program Division Craig Miller ([email protected]) Program Development Craig Miller Convention Secretary Sherri Benoun Kathryn Daugherty Advisor to Chairman Ben Yalow Children’s Programming Karen Wilson Publications Chris Weber Progress Reports Milt Stevens GOH/VIP Liaison Genny Dazzo Webmaster Chaz Boston Baden Fan Fund Liaison Marty Cantor ([email protected]) Green Room Shaun Lyon Publicity Joyce Hooper Sandy Cohen Fan Publicity Chaz Baden Tech Services Mike Donahue Fan Press Releases Joyce Hooper Chuck Shimada WSFS Business Meeting Kevin Standlee Films Mike Donahue WSFS Meeting Secretary Pat McMurray Anime Brett Achorn Convention Photography Charles Mohapel Dances Christian B. McGuire Stan Burns Regency John Hertz Rock Scott Beckstead Administration Division Elayne Pelz Pocket Program Shaun Lyon ([email protected]) Filking Lee & Barry Gold Membership Elayne Pelz Press Elise Toth Registration Jordan Brown Bev Widder Postmaster Sandy Cohen Blood Drive Dennis Cherry Treasury Elayne Pelz Kristine Cherry Cheri Kaylor James Daugherty International Agents Lloyd Penney (Can) Yvonne Penney (Can) John Harold (UK) Robbie Bourget (UK) Edwin Scribner(Aus) Office Janet Baernstein Sheri Taylor Ops John Harold Robbie Bourget Bob Null Ribbons Sharon Sbarsky Communications Bert Boden Signs Katt Thornton Sign Distribution Tadao Tomomatsu Exhibits Division Bobbi Armbruster Asst. Division Head Glenn Glazer Aide d’Bobbi Margene Bahm Exhibits Pat McMurray Special Exhibits Jerome Scott Decorator Liaison Craige Howlett Progress Report #3 Ad Rates Dock Manager Chris Marble Dealers Room Larry Smith Fun Geri Sullivan Full Page (Pro) $300 1/2 Page (Pro) $200 Facilities Division Kim Brown 1/4 Page (Pro) $125 Asst. Division Head Ben Yalow Contracts Craig Miller Full Page (Fan) $125 Bobbi Armbruster 1/2 Page (Fan) $ 85 Glenn Glazer 1/4 Page (Fan) $ 55 Member Services Division Ed Green Con Suite Liz Mortensen Half and quarter page ad rates are for either Joyce Hooper vertical or horizontal. The reservation deadline is Information Technology Ed Hooper 09/15/05 with submission by 10/05/05. Handicapped Services Sally Woehrle Page 4 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 T H E M A G A Z I N E O F T H E S C I E N C E F I C T I O N A N D F A N T A S Y F I E L D Remember why you fell in love with Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in the first place.I.t.’s the books! And the best place to find out about books is in LOCUS. For the past 37 years, 25-time Hugo Award winning LOCUS magazine has been the reporter, chronicler, and backyard gossip for the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields. If you need to know about it, LOCUS is there report- ing on it. EVERY MONTH: LOCUS brings you COMPREHENSIVE COVERAG Eof the SCIENCE FICTION FIELD, with: • Up-to-date news about awards, publishing changes, obituaries, monthly bestsellers, etc. • Advance reviews of novels and short fiction (to help you figure out what to spend your $$$ on). • Interviews with both well-known and up-and-coming authors. • Complete lists of all SF/Fantasy/Horror books published in America and Britain. • Dozens of photos of authors, book covers, etc. • Our famous People & Publishingcolumn - with personal and professional news items about writers and editors, including who sold what book to whom (sometimes before even they know it). EVERY TWO MONTHS: EVERY YEAR: • Complete list of upcoming convention.s LOCUS takes a long, careful look at what has • Coverage of major conventions and conferences happened in SF the previous 12 months, with: including Worldcon, World Fantasy Con, etc. • A summary of book and magazine publishing with charts, figures, etc. EVERY THREE MONTHS: • A comprehensive analysis of the fie.ld • Forthcoming Books - an advance schedule of • The annual LOCUS Recommended Readinglist. English-language books for the next 9 months. • Results of the LOCUS Poll & Survey. • SF around the globe- reports from many coun- tries, plus a list of other-language publications. Subscriptions All subscriptions are payable in US funds. Canadians, please use bank or postal money orders, not personal checks. Make checks payable to: Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661, USA . For credit card orders, call 510-339-9198, fax 510-339- 8144, use our website <www.locusmag.com>, or e-mail <[email protected]>. USA CANADA AND MEXICO INTERNATIONAL __$30.00 for 6 issues (Periodical) __$32.00 for 6 issues (Periodical) __$32.00 for 6 issues (Sea Mail) __$52.00 for 12 issues (Periodical) __$55.00 for 12 issues (Periodical) __$55.00 for 12 issues (Sea Mail) __$95.00 for 24 issues (Periodical) __$100.00 for 24 issues (Periodical) __$100.00 for 24 issues (Sea Mail) __$60.00 for 12 issues (1st class) __$60.00 for 12 issues (1st class) __$88.00 for 12 issues (Air Mail) __$110.00 for 24 issues (1st class) __$110.00 for 24 issues (1st class) __$145.00 for 24 issues (Air Mail) Enclosed is: $______________ [ ] New [ ] Renewal Single copy price $5.95 + $2.00 s&h Institutional : $3.00 extra per year Name:__________________________________________________ Credit Card Type:_________________Exp.Date:__________ Address:__________________________________________ Card Number:______________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Phone:__________________________________________________ City:_________________________ State:_______________ E-mail:___________________________________________ Zip: ___________ Country: __________________________ Cardholder’s Signature:______________________________ Page 5 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 There’s been a certain elegaic tone to these columns this summer, a hearkening back to earlier REFLECTIONS times,old memories of the science fiction field that used to be. Undoubtedly the deaths last year of those two colossi of our genre, Isaac Asimov and Fritz Leiber, were factors that aroused much of that feeling of nostalgia in me; and, as I noted a couple ON of months ago, 1993 is also the fortieth anniversary of my own first sale to a science fiction magazine. Fortieth anniversaries do have a way of getting one to look toward the past. WORLDCONS And now another fortieth anniversary is upon me. For this is September, the month of the World Science Fiction Convention: and this year’s By Robert Silverberg Worldcon will be the fortieth convention I have attended. The Worldcon is the great annual family gathering of the science fiction clan, an assemblage of thousands and thousands of people who care The following article originally appeared in the September 1993 passionately about this strange stuff that we issue of Amazing Stories ®. It is reprinted here with the choose to read and write. Everyone is there: permission of the author. writers, editors, artists, publishers, book dealers, and, of course, readers—the fans, who are actually Page 6 L.A.Con IV Progress Report #2 the people who organize each year’s Worldcon and Campbell, Willy Ley, Frederik Pohl, Lester del Rey, L. do the brutal work that makes it happen. In the Sprague de Camp, and dozens more—moving like course of my forty years of Worldcon attendance, ordinary mortals through the throngs in the lobby. I I’ve had a chance to meet and get to know virtually looked with envy on the hot young writers like the entire roster of science fiction’s great creative Robert Sheckley and Frank M. Robinson, whose figures from Frank R. Paul, Edmond Hamilton, and names were on the tables of contents of all the E. E. “Doc” Smith of the earliest days of our field magazines, and earnestly prayed to join them there down to the promising novices who will evolve into some day. (Which I did: and I formed lifelong the supernovae of twenty-first-century sf. I can’t friendships with them both besides.) I mingled with imagine missing a convention. Through the ebbs fan friends I had known only through and flows of my career, the thought of not going to correspondence, and worked hard to live up to my a Worldcon has never entered my mind. postal reputation for acute wit and erudition. I blurted out my literary ambitions to editors like The last time I missed a Worldcon, it was in San Harry Harrison and Larry T. Shaw, and was Francisco in 1954: but I lived on the East Coast encouraged by what they had to say, though then, and as a 19-year-old college student I simply probably they were just being nice to the lanky, couldn’t come up with the funds to take me on that crew-cutted tyro that I was.
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