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Welcome! Any action or behaviour that:! Quick, You’re Missing It!! ✦ is illegal, or! Hello all, and welcome to the The Tolkien Society has ✦ causes significant interference Loncon School for Wizards.! organised a stream of with convention operations or programme items today, As well as being excessive discomfort to other including a talk at 4:30pm by terribly educational, we attendees, or! David Brawn, the man in charge hope that it’s going to ✦ adversely affects Loncon 3’s of Tolkien publishing at Harper be a great relationship with its guests, Collins. There is also some convention, and that its venue, or the public! fabulous Tolkien-themed work you all have a is strictly forbidden and may in the Art Show, and there will wonderful time. result in revocation of be a quiz at 8pm this evening in There’s a huge membership and/or attendance the Fanac Tent and a party later.! amount going on, so privileges.! please do take the They are also running a contest In particular, please remember time to check the to write a new riddle, or re-write that you must wear your badge Read Me / Pocket an old one, in any format of your or wrist band visibly at all times. Programme before choosing (under 1000 words and If a badge is lost, there will be a you miss too much.! in English). Bring your entry to £30 charge for a replacement. If the party this evening, tweet Enjoy the convention, and you forget it, you can get a #LonconTolkienDay or email to remember to earn plenty of temporary badge from [email protected] by 2pm House Points and avoid getting Registration. After Reg closes, on Sunday.! put in detention!! see Ops for a temporary badge.! —The Chairs! From Imagination to Reality! Some people are wearing badges Read Your Read Me!! saying No Photography: please Tomorrow, the British You can find the information respect these. If you would like Interplanetary Society will be from the Pocket Programme one, please go to Info Desk. ! running a stream of programming that promises to online, at http://guide.loncon3.org, If you have any questions, find cover everything from why we and in iOS and Android apps or mislay an object or child, feel aren’t currently holding this called ’Event Guide’, produced threatened or need other convention on Mars to how we by Grenadine Technologies Inc assistance then please go to Ops: could eventually do so before (the identifier is LONCON). ! you can find them in their yurt evolving to expand into the rest in the Fan Village, or grab a ExCeL has two free wifi of the galaxy.! networks, ExCeL free (at 2.4 Mhz) passing person in red high-vis. ! Cosmonaut? Cosmonaut!! and ExCeL free fast (at 5 MHz). If Ops can also answer all your your internet device can see the questions about when you can Loncon 3 is delighted to faster network, please use it: it and can’t carry something that is, welcome Anatolii Artsebarskii, a has more capacity and is less or looks like, a weapon: please cosmonaut who once spent likely to become overloaded. ! check with them before doing so.! almost five months on the MIR Space Station and now works Loncon 3 has a Code of Conduct, Tech Director says:! and we ask that you abide by it 1with the Kazakh space agency. at all times. You can find more We’re still setting up the He will be speaking at 5pm on details in the Pocket Programme, programme rooms, and moving Sunday in the Second Stage or online, but it boils down to large, heavy objects around. among other appearances: check this:! Please pay attention, and be the pink sheets for more details.! forgiving if we block the way. ! Stroll With The Stars! 1939 And All That! If you’d like some gentle exercise This evening, Loncon 3 will be awarding the Retro Hugo Awards for and good conversation, head out 1939. Retro Hugos are awarded on the 50th, 75th or (one day!) 100th to in front of the Aloft at 9am anniversary of a Worldcon where the Hugos weren’t awarded. This tomorrow morning, where you will be the first of the 75th anniversary Retro Hugos, because 1939 was can go for a stroll with Jeanne the first Worldcon.! Gomoll, Lauren Beukes, Pat In 1938, conventions were just starting to happen in the UK and US Cadigan, Paul Cornell, Andy (naturally, there is debate about which side of the Atlantic got there Duncan, Ellen Datlow and Mary first). A plan was hatched to hold a World convention, to coincide with Anne Mohnaraj, all led by the World’s Fair in New York City.! Edward James.! Swing Dance Change! As with any convention [Except for Loncon 3—Ed], there were fallings out among the staff and disagreements about the best way to do things.! This afternoon’s Swing Dance class will be held in London In New York, there was once one big, happy SF society, The Greater Suite 3, not the Second Stage, at New York Science Fiction Club. Then things started to go downhill, and 1:30pm. ! it split into what eventually became known as New Fandom, lead by Sam Moskowitz (who chaired the convention with help from James Tell Us What You Know! Taurasi and Will Sykora), and the Futurians, whose members included You can email information, short Donald Wollheim and Frederik Pohl. Many short and pointed fanzines articles and scurrilous gossip to were published on each side of this quarrel, which involved a huge [email protected]. You can number of changes of club names and a lot of political name-calling.! also leave paper contributions in New Fandom ended up in running the Worldcon, and a number of their the box in the Ops Yurt. ! Futurian rivals were banned during “The Great Exclusion Act.“ All in all, You can find the current and it’s probably a good job that Twitter hadn’t been invented in 1939. past newsletter issues, and Pink newsletter.php. To sign up, go to: justice: you can find copies on Sheets giving programme https://groups.google.com/forum/#! the newsletter distribution racks. ! changes, in racks located next to forum/pigeon-post-notification or If you would like to find out the Info Desk, outside Capital goo.gl/V5e003. ! Suite room 14, by the Green in more about WSFS, come along to the Fan Village and at the Fan Village Information! Introduction to the WSFS Business Exhibits Info Desk.! Remember that the Fan Village is Meeting (3pm in CS5) so that you here to support all your fannish can learn how it all works to You can also get an email telling hanging out, socialising and enable the members of WSFS you when a new issue is partying needs. We have a (that’s you!) to decide what available, with a link to the pdf fantastic range of real ale for happens with the Hugo Awards version that’s on loncon3.org/ sale, and many other fine drinks. and future Worldcons. The real action starts with the Mark All Tonight’s Parties! In the evening, every Worldcon bid wants to woo you at their Protection Meeting (6:30pm SG Unless otherwise noted, all of parties! In fine London tradition, 33), where you can join in the the parties are in the Fan Village. we’ll be calling ’last orders’ discussion of the current state of Tonight, we’re pleased to shortly before 2am, and we WSFS’s intellectual property welcome the start of partying expect you all to drink up by rights.! from DC in 2017, Helsinki in 2:30am. The last DLR into London Tomorrow, the Business Meeting 2017 (including Scandinavian is at 12:42am. Do not expect us to starts at 10am in CS11. The fandom and Archipelacon), polish the tables.! Business Meeting has a very full Nippon in 2017, Beijing in 2016 agenda this year, and might even and KC in 2016. ! WSFS News! still be going on Monday For one night only, you can also There’s a lot of WSFS action morning. You can read the full head along to the Tolkien and going on this weekend. In fact, agenda at loncon3.org/wsfs- 1there’s so much that we’ve had New Zealand in 2020 parties. business.php, and there’s a There will be a Doctor Who party to produce a WSFS Special summary in the WSFS Special. in the Fanac tent from 10pm. supplement in order to do it This issue was produced by Flick, with help from Jan van’t Ent and some other people. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Illo by Sue Mason. In the US, today is National Creamsicle Day. Is it just me who finds ’creamsicle’ to be a very moist word? ! The Pigeon Post The Newsletter of The World's Science Fiction Convention Issue 2: Retro Hugo Awards By the time you've sent a letter of comment, the convention will be over. The 1939 Retro Hugo Awards BEST NOVEL THE SWORD IN THE STONE by T. H. White (Collins) ! BEST NOVELLA “Who Goes There?” by Don A Stuart [John W. Campbell] (Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1938) ! BEST NOVELETTE “Rule 18” by Clifford D. Simak (Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1938) ! BEST SHORT STORY Colors “How We Went to Mars” by Arthur C. Clarke (Amateur Science Stories, March 1938) When a halftone screen is unavailable, a black and white version of the logo may! be used. BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM) THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H. G. Wells. Written by Howard Koch & Anne Froelick, directed by Orson Welles (The Mercury Theater on the Air, CBS) ! BEST EDITOR - SHORT FORM John W. Campbell ! BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST Virgil Finlay ! BEST FANZINE (42 ballots) IMAGINATION! edited by Forrest J Ackerman, Morojo, and T. Bruce Yerke ! 2BEST FAN WRITER Ray Bradbury Other Awards Presented This Evening The FIRST FANDOM HALL OF FAME AWARD was presented to John Clute FIRST FANDOM POSTHUMOUS HALL OF FAME AWARDS were presented to John "Ted" Carnell and Walter H. Gillings The SAM MOSKOWITZ ARCHIVE AWARD was presented to Mike Ashley The FORREST J ACKERMAN BIG HEART AWARD was presented to Vincent Docherty A special COMMITTEE AWARD, decided by the convention committee rather than being voted on by the membership, was awarded to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in recognition of the first published appearance of SUPERMAN www.loncon3.org/hugos/1939%20Hugo%20awards%20full%20details.pdf

Hugo Award Winner Logo License and Design Guidelines 6 A Message From The Chair Membership Update Science Programme There are a number of rumours 200 members! Well done all! The science programme, with flying around the convention special guest speaker Programme Changes about an incident this astronomer Ruroy Sibley, morning. We would like to Due to this morning’s included speculative make it clear that, although incident, Frederik Pohl will discussion as to what may be the New York City Police were now no longer be appearing on our future civilisation, how called to the convention, no the programme. science may improve living arrests were made. The story conditions and possible that certain would-be members Book Launch super-scientific inventions of the convention were Publication of The Outsider and discoveries. It was arrested on charges of and Others, a memorial volume greatly enjoyed by all who disturbing the peace to H.P. Lovecraft, is planned attended. following the discovery of by August Derleth and Donald GoH Talk Communist propaganda leaflets Wandrei. Convention members are also untrue, and are asked to support the GoH Frank R. Paul gave a well continuing to spread the project by pre-ordering for received talk this afternoon. story to members of the Press the special rate of $3.50. After opening with a small is unhelpful for the --Kenneth Serling quip about the “rebellious, reputation of sf fandom! adventurous minds” present, Another Message From The Chair he went on to discuss the Catering We have received reports relationship between science Pie continues to be available that, contrary to his earlier fiction and scientific for a nickle a slice at the pledge of good behaviour, progress, pointing out how refreshment stand. We believe David Kyle has been passing shortsighted Dr. Robert that chicken and mushroom has out invitations to an Millikan was when he recently now sold out, but other unauthorised post-con gripe said that “we should stop varieties remain available. session. This session is dreaming about atomic power and solar power," because, Outside The Convention designed to show that we are unable to run a successful Paul said, "what seems Don’t forget that the World’s convention and have utterly impossible today may Fair is happening just down dictatorially and un- be commonplace tomorrow.” the road! Be sure to head democratically quashed any New Magazine Coming? along and take a look at "the attempts by radical elements world of tomorrow" to see if to discuss the success of the Leo Margulies, editorial their vision matches yours. con. We urge members to director of Standard report any such behaviour Magazines, has been dropping Auction immediately! cryptic hints about a new The auction went superbly, title to be edited by Mort Art Show despite the current economic Weisinger. He won’t say more climate. The auctioneers went Be sure to check out the Art for fear on the competition through huge volumes of Show before it closes. On getting wind of it, but says material last night and will display are a number of that the planned new magazine continue tonight: be sure to original paintings for covers will interest all of us: we come along, and pick up of fantasy magazines, loaned can’t wait! bargains such as original specially for the occasions, Dead Dog Game cover artwork for less than including an unpublished $8 and story manuscripts original by GoH Frank R. Paul! Remember that there will be (including, last night, an an end-of-con softball game autographed Merrit) at around tomorrow, between Queens SFL 25c! and Philadelphia SFS. We hear that a few drinks for the Party Report team captains can secure Those members of the 2temporary affiliation for convention who, like us, those wanting to get on to, couldn’t afford the $1 cover or off, either team. price for the Banquet will be Overheard At The... pleased to hear that the food was “scarcely exceptional”. So, Isaac Asimov, Harry However, there must have been Harrison and L. Sprague de something worthwhile about Camp all walk into a-- it, as we hear that the 32 ! What do you mean, there isn't members who could afford to a bar? How can you have a attend didn’t leave the private Forry Ackerman and Morojo in Worldcon without a bar? That dining room until 1am! costume (based on magazine makes no sense at all! Reports would be welcome. illustrations by the GoH)

This issue was produced by Flick, based largely on material by Sam Moskowitz, Dave Kyle and Fred Pohl. Rob Hansen and Mark Plummer were her guides to the past, and other help came from Jan van't Ent and Mike Scott. Fillo by Charlie Williams, from Mimosa, photo from Ted Carnell collection. Any errors or misunderstandings are entirely Flick's! !

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Loncon Needs You! propellor beanie). Each Guest’s Golly, who knew? But it’s time to talents saw them assigned to one move on to the Finns. The Finns Loncon is entirely run by of three houses of writerly had some fizz that was flavoured volunteers and we need your wizardry: Orwell, Shelley or with tar. They had bear-and- help to make it a great Mitchison. A new fourth house, cream-cheese onna bun. They convention. Volunteering is also Banks, was created and we held had liquor from liquorice served an excellent way to make new a silent tribute to Iain M Banks.! at their bar, so their party gave friends. Sign up at the Volunteer me the most fun. See, the Finns Desk at the back of the Fan A slideshow detailing how the know that fans like to chomp on Village! Hugo Award bases were weird tuck and to sip on an manufactured was followed by Iron Throne eccentric drinkie so I hope that the chairs telling us that wizards their bid has the best of good Loncon 3 chair Steve Cooper and muggles – sorry, fans – luck and that Worldcon can demonstrates his natural affinity could get along if we all sang the come to Helsinki.! for the Iron Throne. Get your same song. This turned out to be —Doug S! photo taken in the fan village, ’Downtown’ with appropriate today and tomorrow only!! lyrics, and we were invited to Entering the Masquerade? join in with ’Loncon’.! You must register at the —Jessica Yates! Masquerade Desk in Exhibits Thursday night party report near the Costume Display by 5.30pm on Friday, including The Tolkien Society’s party had entrants who have pre-registered queues which were buzzing with online. ! talk of pork pies. When I later returned, I was met by some No Seat, No Entry news which bought tears to my The programme rooms are beer-addled eyes; the pies were getting overcrowded: if you all gone! But they still had some can’t find a seat on a chair, please mead, so I gratefully tasted a tot. don’t try to squeeze in. I’d have gladly had food, but my Programme items cannot lateness meant we’d have to put continue if the fire limit of the up with what they’d still got. room has been exceeded. ! The party put on by the New The Opening Ceremony Zealand team (I’ve supported Fan Village Highlights their bid for some years) gave The Opening Ceremony began In the Library this afternoon, me wine and meringue with with veteran convention actor we have book launches from some fruit and some cream, so Ian Sorensen telling us we were Twelfth Planet (Kaleidoscope) I’m giving their party three starting a new term at (1:30pm-2:30pm), Rebellion cheers. In Kansas they gave me Hugowarts School of Witchcraft (One Night in Sixes) some barbecue pork, with and Wizardry. Hugowarts (3pm-4pm) and NewCon Press impressive selections of sauce. In dormitories have been disguised (4:30pm-5:30pm). ! as budget hotels, and there’s a DC I found an old friend from 3Jomsborg and CUSFS are giant squid in the dock.! New York, so we talked the back legs off a horse. There were nuts. having a reunion party in Chairs Steve Cooper and Alice There were Oreos. Fig Newtons South Gallery room 19 from Lawson oversaw our GoHs’ too. They had Somerset Cider in 6pm: please go along if you’re Sorting Hat ceremony (via pins. Is Taunton American? an alumnus. Sign-up Sheets Jo Walton, Hugo Award Winning Novelist, speaks: You can sign up for Your first Worldcon?! Kafeeklatches or Literary Beers at the Information Desk. Sign-up Worldcons are big, that’s the terror and the glory of them. They are a sheets are available at 9:30am the gathering of the tribes. And they’re about conversation. The program day before (morning slots) or isn’t like a theatre programme, it’s like a computer program. It’s what 2pm (afternoon slots). ! the convention is running. A good program comes out of the conversation in fandom before the con and spills out of program For those of you using your rooms during the con, and feeds back into the wider conversation printed Pocket Programme, you afterwards.! should note that we incorrectly said the Literary Beers would be If you don’t know anyone yet it’s possible to be lonely in the middle of in the Library. In the inimitable everything because it seems as if everyone else knows each other. And words of our programme chief, to a large extent that’s true. At Worldcons these days I don’t have time we can now confirm that the to hang out with all the cool people I already know and only see once Literary Beers will be In The a year. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to meet new people, but it does Fecking Bar. Obviously.! make it harder.! Autographing Policy The advice people normally give new fans is to volunteer. This will introduce you to people, it will give you something to do, and it helps You can get a maximum of three the con. This is all a good idea, especially for able-bodied people.! items signed before you have to go to the back of the queue. I also recomend kaffeeklatches, or literary beers. These are small group Please ask the signings staff — meetings with a writer, artist, or editor. You have to sign up in advance not the author — in advance -- see pocket program. Look for people whose work you like. You’ll whether personalised get to spend an hour with a writer, and you’ll get to meet and talk to autographs or selfies are another nine people who share your tastes. Then afterwards you will allowed.! know them, and they’ll know you, and can introduce you to more people. Vegan Picnic Steve Jackson at Loncon New item: Colonisation of Space 1 The Loncon Vegan Meetup on Friday at 1:30pm in Capital group is holding a picnic at 6pm Steve Jackson is appearing at 14 with Rachel Armstrong and today, in Royal Victoria Square Loncon on three programme Mark Hempsell.! (west of ExCeL on the dockside): items. You can see him today at please come along, and bring noon on The Future of Boardgames Audio Guide to Displays suitable food to share. You might or head to Playtesting Boardgames To download the displays also find veganloncon.co.uk at 7pm. On Saturday at 10am audioguide go to loncon3.org/ useful. ! he’ll be talking about Getting displays_guide.php and click on Kickstarted in Games.! Overheard in the Committee the link. The audio files will play Meeting Programme Updates on any standard mp3 player or mp3 capable phone. If you get Can you keep an eye on the Kim Newman’s signing has been stuck come along to the Exhibits TARDIS? The last time we had moved to 3pm today.! help desk! one it disappeared…. !

Membership stats At the end of yesterday, Loncon 3 had 10,376 total registrations and 5,250 warm bodies, made up of:

Full Memberships Day Memberships Exhibits passes Warm Adult YA Child Infant Adult YA Child Hall Dealer Bodies Thursday 4,206 3473155 43 157 57 10 N/A 275 5,250 Guest of Honour, Guest and Comp memberships are included in Adult. There were also some walk-in members, but we don’t have the numbers yet.

This issue was produced by Zara Baxter, with help from Jan van ’t Ent and Flick. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Now that everything’s up and running, we can all chill out: happy Relaxation Day, everyone!. !

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Unaccompanied Children Tourist Tips Tolkien Day Remember that children under The Natural History Museum Yesterday‘s Tolkien programme the age of 12 should be has a spectacular climbing frame stream was very well attended, accompanied by an adult at all shaped exactly like a dinosaur and well received, even at 10am times. You should always be in skeleton. See how quickly your on the first day of the the same Hall or Room as your five-year-old can get to the top!! convention. Panels discussed the child, and they should know The Vorpal Blade Went impact of the Peter Jackson films where you are at all times: if Snicker-Snack! and the changes made during ExCeL find an unaccompanied the adaptation, the debt that child who can‘t locate his or her The Jabberwocky music festival, genre authors owe to Tolkien, parents immediately, they will which was to be at the west end and a presentation from David call the police.! of ExCeL tonight and tomorrow, Brawn, who handles Tolkien for has been cancelled: the Harper Collins.! If you‘d like something to Boulevard will stay open as occupy small children, pick up a A Convocation of Eagles usual, not be closed off part-way.! Parker Pigeon colouring-in pack On 14 April 1950, a new comic from the Exhibits Desk.! Programme Updates. was born and Dan Dare Photo Opportunity Two items in the BIS programme embarked upon his illustrious stream have changed. At 6pm, career. Porcupine books, stand C The Events team is looking for we now have BIS: Worldships 1 - in the Dealers‘ Zone, has an photos of the convention that are Living in Worldships with Richard almost complete run of Eagles suitable for possible use in the Osborne and Rachel Armstrong. from issue 1 to 1960. ! introductions to the Hugo At 7pm, it‘s BIS: Colonisation of Awards and Closing Ceremony. Ribbons Space 2 - Growing into interstellar If you‘ve taken a particularly civilisation, with Richard If this is your first Worldcon, good shot, please email it to Osborne and Stephen Ashworth. please head over to the Info [email protected] in a BIS: Freedom on the Moon, with Desk and collect your special format suitable for inserting into Stephen Baxter, is at 7:30pm (all first-time attendee ribbon. ! Powerpoint. Emails have to be in CS14).! under 5MB each: please just 1939 Retro Hugo Awards Know Your Foxes send your best pictures!! Last night‘s Retro Hugo awards ISS Passes Over Loncon Obviously, the best place to were a unique event, featuring enjoy a beverage is the Fan musical interludes from the The International Space Station Village, but those of you going to Brideshead Ballroom Stompers.! will be particularly visible publishers‘ events might find tonight, at 9:30pm, weather Presenters Mary Robinette themselves being directed to a permitting.! Kowal and Robert Shearman Fox Bar. If so, be careful: there welcomed us to 1939, and Radio Stroll With The Stars are two Fox bars, one at either LNCN3 was live on air to end of ExCeL. The Fox@Excel is Meet at 9am on Saturday entertain us. ! just outside the west end of the morning, in front of the Aloft, to convention centre, The Fox@ Remember, always choose Cold Stroll with Robin Hobb, John 4Connaught is to the east, just Be Gone to deal with all your Chu, Scott Edelman, Bill past the Ramada. Take time to con-crud needs!! Fawcett, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, make a note of which one you Jody Lynn Nye, Jeff Vandermeer Fit Git want: it could save you a half- and Ann Vandermeer, all led by mile walk! ! Send us your step counts, let‘s Edward James.! see who gets the highest score! MIT Alumni Language Lessons: Finnish There will be an informal There are a number of Worldcon bids coming up from non-English- gathering of MIT alumni in the speaking countries. We recommend that you start practicing now for Fan Village bar, near the Literary your trips, so we‘ve asked the bids to provide us with some useful Beer area, on Friday for an hour phrases to use around their convention. You can even practice on the from from 6pm #mitalumni at bid staff during Loncon.! #loncon3! My hovercraft is full of eels — Ilmatyynyalukseni on täynnä ankeriaita! Eastercon The truth is out there — Totuus on tuolla ulkona! Dysprosium, the 2015 Eastercon, It‘s a trap! — Se on ansa!! will be Jim Butcher‘s first European convention One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,! appearance. To celebrate (and One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them! convince you to buy a In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.! membership) they‘re having a !Yksi sormus löytää heidät, se yksi heitä hallitsee,! party in the Fan Village tonight.! !se yksi heidät yöhön syöksee ja pimeyteen kahlitsee! Chesley Awards !maassa Mordorin joka varjojen saartama on.! I‘ve seen things you people wouldn‘t believe.! The presentation of the Chesley Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.! Awards for achievement in I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.! science fiction and fantasy art All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.! will take place this evening from Time... to die.! 7pm in the Art Show, followed !Olen nähnyt asioita, joita te ihmiset ette uskoisi.! by an open reception where you !Hyökkäysaluksia tulessa Orionin edustalla.! can take a look at the amazing !Olen katsellut c-säteiden kimaltelua pimeässä lähellä work in the Art Show.! Tannhäuser-porttia.! Parties !Kaikki nuo hetket katoavat aikanaan kuin kyyneleet sateeseen.! !Aika... kuolla.! In the Fan Village this evening, The Helsinki team also has some language lessons online: youtu.be/ we have parties from DC in emQI9X7JH6I and youtu.be/fXSLJcIVWJY. 2017, Scandinavian fandom, Fannish Traditions during tonight‘s A Night at the Nippon in 2017, Beijing in 2016 Smithsonian Museum: Air & Space and KC in 2016.! Young ladies should beware of party.! men offering to show them their We‘re also welcoming astral pole. Often mistaken for a Restaurant Review Brotherhood Without Banners set of physical exercises utilising and Dysprosium (the 2015 The Masala Deck, Bar & a broomstick, this is actually fan Eastercon) into the Village. Our Reataurant, by the Novotel code for sexual availability. Welcome Party will be in the (telephone 020 7476 2852) is a Instead, suggest a quick game of Fanac Tent from 9pm. At 9pm in “traditional English“ Indian Fizz Buzz.! the bar, please raise a glass in restaurant with a wide, memory of Harry Harrison.! Prize Winners unadventurous menu. Halal, caters well for vegetarians, if you Parties will stop serving at 2am, The winners of yesterday‘s DC17 are vegan/lactose intolerant and throw you out at 2:30am. Truth is Stranger Than Science remember to ask for no butter; The last DLR into London is at Fiction contest, sponsored by the also tested by GF diner, no 00:42am.! Destination DC Convention problems. The food was good Bureau, are Mick Taylor, Alaina If you‘re taking a taxi to your but on Tuesday night they were Evans and Lauren Bohaczuk. hotel, remember that only black chronically understaffed and it Please go to the DC17 tent to cabs can take un-booked jobs on was two hours to the main pick up your prizes. DDC will be the street or on the rank outside course. Two courses, £25.! 4hosting their contest again ExCeL: an unbooked mini-cab is —Farah Mendlesohn just a stranger‘s car. This issue was produced by Flick, with help from Jan van‘t Ent and Alison Scott. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Today it‘s the Feast of the Dormition, commemorating the falling asleep and later rebirth of the God-bearer. I don‘t think that‘s from a GRRM novel, but I could be wrong. ! !

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2014 Chesley Awards Escalate! Escalate! the new proposals were referred to special committees that may This evening the 2014 Chesley Worldcon is a very busy place report revised versions to Awards, for artwork produced in and bottlenecks are forming Saturday's meeting. 2013, were presented. The because people are pausing at winners are: the top and bottom of the The most contentious item of ✦ Best Cover (Hardback): Todd escalators. Remember if you are new business was a proposal Lockwood —A Natural History not confident on moving walkways that would replace the current of Dragons lifts are available, with priority ratification process (a vote at the ✦ Best Cover (Paperback): Kerem for those who need them. following year's Business Beyit— The Scroll of Years Meeting) with a ballot submitted Please remember that in the UK ✦ Best Cover (Magazine): Dan to all of the members of the we stand to the left and walk on Dos Santos — Fables #136 following year's Worldcon. A the right on escalators. ✦ Best Interior Illustration: Brian proposal to prohibit Worldcons Kessinger — Walking Your Oh, and please remember to lift from selling memberships with Octopus your 4th Doctor scarf when any WSFS voting rights for less ✦ Best Color Unpublished: travelling on the escalator. than the cost of a Supporting Donato Giancola — Huor and Unlike the Doctor you will not membership also had some Hurin Approaching Gondolin regenerate. controversy, and both were ✦ Best Monochrome UCLA Alums Demand Equal referred to committees with Unpublished: Ruth Sanderson Time! instructions to report back to — The Descent of Persephone Saturday's meeting. ✦ Best Three Dimensional Art: There will be an informal The Business Meeting also Devin Dorrity — Cecaelia, gathering of UCLA alumni - adopted the usual Hugo Queen of the Ocean! complete with 8 clap - near the eligibility-extension resolution ✦ Best Gaming Related information table on Saturday at for non-US-published works Illustration: Lucas Graciano — 5pm. Look for the folks wearing (this may be rendered moot if The Last Stand of Thorin BearWear. No Trojans, please. the constitutional amendment Oakenshield! [This is obviously a coded message. making such extensions ✦ Best Product Illustration: Julie Good luck with your secret mission permanent is ratified) and a Bell/Boris Vallejo — Jeannie’s —Ed.] resolution recommending that Kitten! WSFS Business Meeting the Mark Protection Committee ✦ Best Art Director: Irene Gallo Report establish a legal entity ✦ Lifetime Achievement: Jim All constitutional amendments ("Worldcon Intellectual Property Burns submitted to the Business Trust") for holding WSFS's Meeting survived the intellectual property, especially Preliminary Business Meeting outside the USA. and will be considered at the The meeting received reports Main Business Meeting on from many WSFS and Worldcon Saturday (10am, CS 8+11). This committees, including financial includes the seven constitutional reports from past Worldcons. 5amendments passed on from last Details are in the agenda papers year and six new proposals. All (copies should still be available Chesley winners pin designed by Fan thirteen were summarized in the at tomorrow's meeting) and will Artist Hugo Finalist Spring WSFS Special Edition and are on be included in the minutes Schoenhuth! the Loncon 3 web site. Two of published after the convention. Extra Signings Mark Oshiro, Hugo Fan Writer Finalist, speaks: PS Publishing will have author Hello, fellow Worldcon members! I'm fresh from the overwhelmingly signing at their dealer table beautiful experience that was my first NASFiC. While the Ren Center's (stand F) over the weekend. labyrinthine arrangement could have been improved by a David Tomorrow, Matt Hughes will be Bowie (or two), the refreshing discussions and impressive cosplaying signing his new novella, left me eager for more nerdiness. And I shall get it! This is going to be Whimsies and Noubles, from 2pm my second Worldcon ever, and it's also going to be my second chance until 3pm. Brian Aldiss will be to travel to England. I'd like to think that I'm prepared, but let's be signing The Invention of Happiness real. Being unprepared is what I do. and Paul McAuley will be I think what's most exciting for me, after having been introduced to signing his collection, A Very the SF/F community in the US in the last year, is the chance to get to British History, from 3pm until experience the international community at large. And I think it's 4pm. important to recognise that this community spans the globe, across On Sunday, Stephen Baxter and borders and languages and cultures. This year at Detcon1 I was a part Ian R MacLeod will be signing of the Diversity Committee, which was responsible for outreach and between 2pm and 3pm. programming to help represent a brilliant spectrum of SF/F fans. And now, I am so thrilled to get to experience my first SF con outside of the Fascinating London Facts US. And be on panels! And possibly meet Sarah Rees Brennan. (Y'all The Docklands Light Railway need to read her work, I swear.) has run entirely on clockwork Worldcon, I am completely not ready for you, and I could not feel since its introduction in 1872. better about that. Beefeaters based at Tower Gateway wind it up every you have your new glass plastic became blurry and his speech morning as part of part of the do please buy some real ale to slurred. Was it a problem with traditional Ceremony of the put in it. bandwidth, or maybe just that robots can't handle real ale? Keys. Although the trains are Unfortunately the convention is widely believed to be driverless, short of volunteers (but not real Books For Prisoners they are actually operated by ale yet, drink more beer!) so the As part of the ongoing Books for trained ravens. If you should see table isn’t always staffed — if a member of DLR staff opening Prisoners campaign against you’re not already doing so restrictions on UK prisoners the front panel in a train, he is please think about volunteering. feeding the ravens. receiving books from their The volunteer desk is at the back families and friends, English ASFA Meeting of the fan village. PEN are supporting the There will be an ASFA meeting More Tourist Tips establishment of dedicated Book Rooms at HMP Wormwood at 10am tomorrow morning in Pay for your tube journey by Scrubs. These rooms aim to SG33. Old, new and prospective pushing your credit card into the complement the prison's central members are welcome. slot at the ticket barrier. library by providing a space Strange Horizons Robot Boy where inmates are able to access Tomorrow morning, Strange Brad Templeton is in Idaho this books during association times. Horizons will be holding a weekend, but sent a telepresence If you are interested in donating brunch in the Fan Village from robot in his place. Guiding his a book to a prisoner, come to 10am to noon. battery operated avatar, rented stand 54 in the exhibition hall Real Glass Plastic for Real from pilotpresence.com, round the where English PEN has a book Ale Fan Village, he posed for photos drop. You can deposit your by the Iron Throne, chatted with donations here and we'll do the You can buy your fabulous fans, strolled across the Village rest. If you're on Twitter please Loncon beer glass plastic in the Green, took in a few Worldcon consider tweeting a photograph fan village at the table between 5bids, and headed towards the of your donation @englishpen the bar and the TARDIS. When bar. At this point, his image #BooksForPrisoners.

This issue was produced by Ang Rosin, with help from Jan van 't Ent and Flick. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Remember, chaps, today is Men’s Grooming Day. Just think what could happen if you get out the tweezers. Or clippers. Or hedge trimmers. A chainsaw is probably taking it too far, though. !

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Site Selection been. You should join, they have Free Chocolate! excellent rates. DC, I now realise, Choose the site of the 2016 There will be a free tasting of had punch on the go. The cider Worldcon: vote before 6pm British and beyond chocolate for I’d seen on day one was just an today in the Fan Village.! 150 lucky people at 1:30pm ingredient. Good thing to know, Sunday in Capital 9. Taste a Anubis Gates because punch is a good deal roasted bean from Paul A Young more fun. In fact, since their The world premiere of Tim (London), and chocolate from punch was so good, I shall state Powers’ The Anubis Gates will be Willie’s Cacao (Devon), Duffy’s with the cheeriest, happiest grins held at 3pm in Second Stage. Red Star Chocolate that their party was quite the Tim Powers has donated a (Lincolnshire), Pump Street best party to date, and I hope signed copy of the script to be Bakery (Suffolk), Original Beans that their Worldcon bid wins.! auctioned at Loncon 3. Proceeds (Europe) and Askinosie —Doug S! will be equally split between the Chocolate (USA). You also get a theatre company, a charity of Fan Village Highlights badge ribbon. Sign up at Info Tim’s choice, and the convention Desk today. ! — details will be announced at In the Library, we have book They Are On Holiday Too the end of the performance.! launches from David Wake (noon-1pm), Elsewhen’s The Friday Night Party Report There are lots of exciting famous Rhymer (1:30pm-2:30pm), people at the convention, and It is now Friday night, and for Rebellion’s World of Fire they love meeting their fans, but reasons unclear I was dressed (3pm-4pm) and House of they are here to enjoy the just in tight golden shorts, but Murky Depths’ Dead Girl convention just as much as you the Party Reporter’s weird (4:30pm-5:30pm). Ebury are: please be sensible when cosplaying gear shouldn’t keep Publishing and Ticonderoga asking for autographs, and don’t you from party reports. There Publications are in the Fan monopolise anyone’s time.! was Brotherhood there Without Village from 6pm-9pm. Test of Observational Skills Banners (their space had some For Science! hangings emblazoned with You may have noticed that our clues). I was too late for food, Elisabeth Lunde, an MA student advice to stand to the left on but with charm and good grace from the University of escalators was ever-so-slightly they supplied me with glasses of Greenwich, is carrying out a inaccurate….! project on how social media booze. Helsinki were partying Badge Finds its Way Home too, but the crowd meant tonight influences people’s decisions to I was skipping their den, then I attend conventions. Separately, Is this the furthest a lost badge found the Beijing team had now David Gardner and Dr. Anthony has traveled to be returned to the been allowed to pass out some Hubert, researchers from the US, convention? Uta Braatz’s badge free beer to the fen. Oh Kansas, I are just starting a project to find traveled from Greenwich back to visited twice, and of course took out common interests and the con, and can be collected another trip though their fine behaviours amongst fans. Copies from Registration.! of both surveys are available at tent to take some more pork Diana Wynne Jones with a new choice of sauce to the Info Desk.! 6Today would have been Diana remind me how well the first Are You A Cow? went. Dysprosium, Eastercon Wynne Jones’ 80th birthday. Get your breath tested by Royal twenty-fifteen, is a con which is Today’s Google Doodle of a Holloway’s Climate Change run by some mates, so of course witch instructing a young boy Team at stand 22 in the Exhibits I dropped by just to say I had celebrates her works. ! Hall. ! Programme Updates Gillian Polack, GUFF Delegate, speaks: ✦ The Province of All Mankind I was surprised to win GUFF. My first response is that there were truer (1:30pm, Capital 7) has added fans out there, Shay and Alison and Samara, for instance, but this isn’t panellists David D Levine, what made me assume no-one would vote for me: I assumed I wasn’t Karen Furlong, Emma J. King a true fan. Voting has proven otherwise, and I’m walking very tall1. and Mary Turzillo.! I’m a strange fan, but a very real one.! ✦ Unfortunately we won’t be A few years ago, someone told a friend of mine "You’re not a fan, screening the Nigel Kneale you’re a pro." He said it to me, too, but I try to forget2. Obviously I’m television play The Crunch in not the only one who doesn’t like to bar writers from the hallowed Capital Suite 17 at 2:30pm. grounds of fandom, for I am writing this today as the GUFF delegate. Instead, we’ll screen the 1978 I’m a novelist. I’m a historian, I am…I am, in fact, many, many things. BBC adaptation of Alan And one of those things is a fan.! Garner’s novel Red Shift.! I’ve been a fan since I discovered ’Doc’ Smith and Sylvia Engdahl and ✦ The 1:30pm signing will now Lord Dunsany and Andre Norton. I’ve been a fan since Doctor Who also include G. David Nordley.! started in Australia and I saw the very first episode with the very first ✦ Jeff Vandermeer will be Doctor (I’m a middle-aged fan, I’m a female fan). When I went to signing at 1:30pm in the Melbourne University, the first thing I did was join the science fiction Exhibits Hall.! club. When I finished my second PhD, I announced that I was turning into a Timelord3.! ✦ Joe Haldeman’s autograph None of my multivariate and confused selves are ever very far away session has been moved to from speculative fiction. This makes me very happy.! 3pm on Saturday.! 1. I can almost reach the books on the top shelf! ✦ Linda Stratmann will be 2. Why would I want to remember that the gates to Heaven are supposed to be barred?! signing at 2pm in the 3. I am now Dr Dr GP – bad jokes are better than good ones and who doesn’t want to Woodlore stand block F be the Three Doctors, anyway? ! (Exhibits Hall).! Ed: It has come to our attention that Gillian was thrown out of a Morris side. Approach with caution. Art Show art sold on Friday. The instant Helsinki Photo Booth The full-colour, deluxe Artist sale option is still available Helsinki in 2017 is running a Showcase publication has been today, so bid or risk losing out!! getting rave reviews from artists photo booth. Get your photo and members alike. If you pre- Who’s Watching Who? taken — with props — and get a free print while stocks last. Bring ordered a copy, please collect it We’ve had a couple of requests a USB stick to take a copy home.! from the Art Show Control Desk from visiting fans who will be by 6pm(that’s today, folks!). If here for the Doctor Who Hi-Vis Handback you didn’t, copies are still premiere and would like to get You should only have a blue hi- available for just £5.! together with other fans to vis jacket if you’ve been given a watch. If you’re arranging an The Art Show started very specific task. If not, hand it back event, please let the newsletter strongly with nearly £20,000 of to Ops ASAP. team know. ! Membership Stats At the end of yesterday, Loncon 3 had 10,535 total registrations and 6,222 warm bodies, made up of:

Full Memberships Day Memberships Exhibits passes Warm Adult YA Child Infant Adult YA Child Hall Dealer Bodies

Thursday 4,206 347 155 43 157 57 10 N/A 275 5,250 Friday 4,689 6393 172 52 478 97 31 17 293 6,222 Totals are cumulative. Guest of Honour, Guest and Comp memberships are included in Adult. Some walk-ins from Thursday haven’t yet been added, but we did count the telepresence robot. This issue was produced by Zara Baxter, with help from Jan van ’t Ent, Flick and Doug S. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. It’s International Homeless Animals Day. If you’re moved to adopt, please remember that ExCeL doesn’t allow non-service animals: you’ll have to wait until you get home. !

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Accessibility poster Where do new, potentially Capital Hall and chat with deadly viruses come from? He Tabitha, our representative from Access has become aware of receives a prize of £50 and an Destination DC, the Washington several incidents involving uncorrected proof of Harry DC convention and visitors mobility scooters that resulted in Harrison's memoirs. Honourable bureau. injuries to people and damage to mentions and a cash prize of £25 property. We'd like to request the Tabitha is also running a Truth is go to Mathew Hall for his poster following: Stranger than Science Fiction Tracking epidemics using genome contest with prizes ranging up to ✦ Please use the Scooter- sequences and Ursula Arndt for a free two-night stay at the Friendly Access Lifts, which her poster Investigating ancient Marriott Wardman Park. are located on Level 0 just people and environments using 21st The winners of Thursday's DC17 inside the Fan Village, on century technology.! Level 1 at the door near the contest are Annabel van Toourn, Green Room Confusion Exhibit Hall, and on Level 3 at Johan Flaton, and Ron Oakes. the west end of the corridor Programme items on the Green Please stop by the DC17 tent to behind the grating screen. are in the Fan Village. The Green pick up your prizes. We're asking this because Room, on Level 2 of the Capital Past Title Ribbons we've discovered that the main Suite, is for programme Ribbons for past titles (such as passenger lifts (the ones that participants only. past Hugo winners and fan fund come out near the Access desk Stroll With The Stars delegates) can be found in on Level 0) are unsafe for Programme Ops. scooters; the doors are narrow Meet at 9am on Sunday and close very quickly, and morning, in front of the Aloft, to several people have been Stroll with John Clute, Cory In Memoriam caught in them. Doctorow, Farah Mendlesohn, Sadly, the community has lost Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, the following members since the ✦ Please drive at a safe (that is, Elizabeth Hand, Tricia Sullivan slow) speed. Several crashes Souvenir Book went to press: and Jonathan Strahan, all led by have happened because Judith Clute. Ken Brown, Fan; Roger K. people were driving too fast. Clendening II, Fan; Mike Farren, All The News From DC Even if you are a very Fan; Nancy Garden, Author; R. Tonight's DC17 2017 Worldcon experienced scooter user, we A. "Bob" Hoffman, Fan; Susan Bid party theme is Explore the would ask that you set a good Kahn, Fan; Daniel Keyes, Library of Congress! Please join us example for people who are not. Author, Hugo Award Winner; around 8pm for refreshments Jay Lake, Author; Page E. Lewis, Poster Comp Winners 7and conversation. Fan; Arlene Martel, Actress; The winner of the Harry and If you have any questions about William C. Martin, Fan; Peter Joan Harrison memorial poster visiting Washington DC or the Ruber, Publisher; Mary Stewart, prize for the poster that best Marriott Wardman Park, the site Author; Marianne Sydow, Fan, communicates with a lay for the DC17 2017 Worldcon bid Author; Patrick Woodroofe, audience is Liam Brierley for his then visit the DC17 tent in the Artist. Loncon App Stats Language Lessons: Chinese As of mid-day Friday we had The second in our informative series of handy phrases from 3,400 unique devices using the convention bid countries. Do go and greet the Chinese representatives Loncon Grenadine mobile apps. in the fan village with the following: This probably translates to around 3,200 unique users since Live long and proper — Sheng Sheng Bu Xi, Fan Rong Chang Sheng some have loaded the app onto — ⽣⽣不息，繁荣昌盛 multiple devices. Winter is coming — Lin Dong Jiang Zh — 凛冬将⾄ Programme Updates Don’t panic — Bu Yao Kong Huang — 不要恐慌 Gray Tinehart and Val Ontel Please may I have your autograph? — Ke Yi Gei Wo Qian Ge Ming have been added to Reluctant, or Ma? — Just Not Interested Sunday 11am, 可以给我签个名吗？ CS15. This is my favorite book/movie. I have read/watched it for dozens of Microwave Madness on the Green, times! — Zhe Shi Wo Zui Xi Huan De Shu/Dian Ying, Wo Du Le/ Kan Sunday noon is cancelled, Le Hao Duo Bian! — 这是我最喜欢的书/电影，我读了/看了好多遍！ instead they will build as big a I see you strange bones, one in a million. This secret book of martial Scalextric track as possible. Same arts belongs to you for free! — Wo Kan Ni Jin Gu Qi Te, Wan Zhong time and place. Wu Yi, Zhe Ben Wu Lin Mi Ji Jiu Song Ni Le! —我看你筋⾻奇特，万中 There will be no Monday 10am ⽆⼀，这本武林秘籍就送你了！ Kaffeeklatsch with Jonathan Would you like a copy of my fazine? — Xiang Mai Yi Ben Wo De Za Green. A reading with Trudy Zhi Ma? — Myers is taking place on 想买⼀本我的杂志吗？ Monday at 1pm, LS1. Loncon Poems up and running on Facebook under the group Economic Parties Tori Truslow spent Friday at Systems of Speculative and In the Fan Village this evening, Loncon writing 50 poems on Science Fiction, and anyone who we have our regularly scheduled found materials from around the is interested in joining the parties from DC in 2017 and con, to raise money for Refuge. discussion is welcome. Helsinki in 2017. Her Just Giving page is at www.justgiving.com/Tori-Truslow/, Tai Chi on the Green We’re also welcoming Sasquan if you would like to contribute to (the 2015 Worldcon), Montreal Join in with the Tai Chi session, her fundraising efforts. Some in 2017 (It’s Saturday, join us for tomorrow morning at 10am on examples are on Twitter: Hockey night!) and Dublin in the Green. Suitable for all, @toritruslow. 2019 into the Village. Also watch whatever your physical out for the Sime~Gen Zeor Day Sherlock Fans condition. Celebration from 9pm, right of There’s a Sherlock walking tour Message Boards the entrance. from 10am to 1pm on Sunday, £8 If you want to leave a message per person: if you’d like to join In the London Suite, you can for other members of the in with it please tell find BarFleet. convention, you can put it on the [email protected]. Parties will stop serving at 2am, blue display boards at the front and throw you out at 2:30am. Economics And SF Social of the Fan Village. The last DLR to London is at Media Group Lightbulb Moment 00:42am. In the Economics and Class in Anyone who was at the Science Fiction discussion a If you’re taking a taxi to your Electronics & Illumination item suggestion was made to create a hotel, remember that only black yesterday, and is due a battery social media space for further cabs can take un-booked jobs on for their kit, can pick one up discussion on economics in the street or on the rank outside7 from the Info Desk. ExCel: an unbooked mini-cab is science fiction. This space is now just a stranger’s car. This issue was produced by Ang Rosin, with help from Jan van 't Ent and Flick. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Today is Honey Bee Day. If you get Flick at the wrong time, she’ll tell you more than you ever wanted to know about neonicotinoids, and then you’ll be sorry. !

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Casino Night! 10 Things You May Not Selection business, with no Know About The Fan Village! meeting on Monday.! Come along to the Fanac Tent tonight at 10pm for the Fan 1. You can buy five different real The Site Selection Meeting on Funds Casino. Give us real ales at 3.95 a pint.! Sunday (10am, CS8+11) will money and we will give you 2. Volunteers can get free soft consist of the announcement of worthless but pretty pieces of drinks, snacks, books and t- and a presentation by the paper that will allow you to play shirts in the volunteer lounge.! winning 2016 Worldcon, the roulette wheel, blackjack 3. Journeymen of Fandom have Question Time for next year’s tables and poker dice.! provided an unsupervised Worldcon (Sasquan), and short presentations from bids for the Fan Funds Auction! charging point in the library. This means you, Robot Boy.! 2017 Worldcon.! The Fan Funds are a fine old 4. There are definitely not 2 All seven constitutional tradition that has been raising TARDISes in the Fan Village, amendments passed on from last money to send fans across because antimatter incidents year were ratified. Four new continents to strengthen the violate the Code of Conduct.! proposals received first passage bonds between us for many 5. From tomorrow morning, you and will be passed on to next years. We’ll be holding an can come along and be one of year’s Worldcon for ratification:! auction in aid of the Funds at the first to join the 2016 ✦ Popular Ratification: noon tomorrow in CS9: please Worldcon.! Amendments passed by one bring donations to the auction, 6. Chingford Morris Men will be or leave them with Ops Business Meeting and ratified by performing either in the bar or the next will be submitted to a beforehand (labelled clearly). on the Green tomorrow.! referendum of the following Remember to come along to the 7. We have several different chill (third) year’s Worldcon’s auction too, so that you can buy out areas, especially if you are an members.! them all back again!! emo goth teenager.! ✦ A Story by Any Other Name: 1987 Souvenir Book! 8. You can buy a wonderful Clarification of the status of Loncon 3 Beer glass for £2, or audiobook versions of ”story” Copies of the 1987 Brighton one hour’s volunteering.! works.! Worldcon Souvenir Book are ✦ 9. All convention full and day Hugo Finalists: Formally renames available on the freebie table members are welcome in the Fan those works/people who appear near Info Desk. This is a fine on the Hugo Award short list Village.! hardback book with a dustjacket ”finalists” instead of ”nominees.”! 10. We will be partying till 2:30am by Jim Burns (original in the Art ✦ Membership Types and Rates: tonight and tomorrow night.! Show). Help yourself: someone Worldcons (and NASFiCs) cannot wants his garage back. Escalators! sell memberships with voting rights for less than the cost of Please stand on the right, and be their supporting memberships.! understanding during busy periods: pushing isn’t polite! [We Proposals to extend Hugo mean it, this time—Ed]! Award nominating rights to members of NASFiC (WSFS’s WSFS Main Business other convention, held when the 8Meeting Report! Worldcon is outside North The Business Meeting on America) and to create a Best Saturday dealt with all Fan Performer (later modified to substantive business: Sunday’s Best Fan Performance) Hugo meeting will just be for Site Award category failed to pass.! WSFS MPC Meeting! Awards Results! The WSFS Mark Protection This evening, the following awards were either announced or Committee will meet in CS8+11 presented at Loncon 3:! at noon tomorrow, after the Sidewise Award! Former Worldcon Chairs’ Photo ✦ Best Long-Form Alternate History (tie):The Windsor Faction by DJ Shoot in the same room. This Taylor (Chatto & Windus) and Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy meeting is open to all Worldcon Survived Dallas? by Bryce Zabel (Mill City Press)! members.! ✦ Best Short-Form Alternate History: ”The Weight of the Sunrise” by Interstellar: Realities and Vylar Kaftan (Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013)! Imagination! Prometheus Awards! The Initiative For Interstellar ✦ Best Novel (tie): Homeland by Cory Doctorow (TOR Books) and Nexus Studies (www.I4IS.org) has by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot Books)! organised a stream of ✦ Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame): Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold! programming tomorrow ✦ Special Prometheus Award: Leslie Fish, author-filksinger, for the afternoon, from 1:30pm to 5pm. combination of her 2013 novella, ”Tower of Horses” and her filk Among the speakers will be song, The Horsetamer’s Daughter! author Alastair Reynolds and Seiun Awards! TED fellow Dr Rachel Armstrong, ✦ Best Japanese Novel: From Mt.Kororogi, From Jupiter Trojan by Issui and the topics range from SF Ogawa (Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.)! starships as real engineering to ✦ Best Japanese Short Story: Ima Shuugouteki Muishikio by Kosyu Tani attempts to plan out a century- (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers)! long roadmap towards starflight. ! ✦ Best Translated Novel: Blindsight by Peter Watts, translated by Yoichi Advice For Day Visitors! Shimada (Tokyo Sogensha)! The DLR often runs deceptively ✦ Best Translated Short Story: ”The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, late. If you are coming to the translated by Furusawa Yoshimi-dori (Hayakawa 1/13)! convention each day from home, ✦ Best Dramatic Presentation: Pacific Rim, Director: Guillermo del Toro! or from a hotel that’s not in ✦ Best Comic: The World of Narue by Marukawa Tomohiro. Edited by walking distance, please use TFL Kadokawa Shoten. First published in Japan by Kadokawa journey planner to work out, Corporation, Tokyo! while it’s daylight and you’re ✦ Best Artist: Naoyuki Katoh! sober, exactly how you’re getting ✦ Best Non-Fiction: DIY Liquid Fuel Rocket by Summer Rocket team, Asari home when it’s dark and you’re Yoshitoh (Gakken Education Publishing Co., Ltd.)! not.! ✦ Free Genre: NOVA original anthology series, edited by Nozomi Ohmori (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Publishers)! Subscribers! Golden Duck Awards ! We’d like to thank the people ✦ Picture Book: Vader’s Little Princess, by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle)! who, back in early 2009, ✦ Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grade: Hello Nebulon and Journey subscribed to the bid that to Juno, by Ray O’Ryan (Little Simon)! eventually became Loncon 3. ✦ Hal Clement Award for Young Adult: The Planet Thieves, by Dan They are:! Krokos (Tor Starscape)! James Bacon, Clare Boothby, Rachael Livermore, Duncan Van Wessel, Jan van ’t Ent, Ben Claire Brialey, David Carlile, MacGregor, Hayley Marsden, Yalow, Ross Steve Cooper, Richard John Medany, Rita Medany, Younger. Crawshaw, Vincent Docherty, Mark Meenan, Farah Fran Dowd, John Dowd, Martin Mendelson, Miriam Moss, Mike Easterbrook, Herman Ellingsen, Owen, Mark Plummer, Thomas Flick, SF Foundation, Colin Recktenwald, Theresa Renner, Harris, Wilf James, Grant Alison Scott, Mike Scott, Martin Kruger, Alice Lawson, Sue8 Lee, Stricker, Paul van Oven, Kirsti

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Masquerade Results A Masquerade is like a huge jigsaw, the pieces assembled by many people, some of whom have never done it before and who may have never even met. I would like to thank all the people who worked behind the scenes, especially those who saw gaps and created the missing pieces then and there. For the audience, the biggest part of the jigsaw is the stage show. I would also like to thank all the entrants for the many months of work that gave us such a spectacular event.! —Giulia De Cesare, Masquerade Director ! Young Fan Division:! Best Time Traveler — Alberta Gear (Tali Semo)! Most Beautiful and Coolest — Elsa (Nicole Keller)! Special Judge’s Award— Elsa (Nicole Keller)! Most Original and Creative— Lost and Found (Olivia and Eleah Flockhart)! Novice Division:! Most Creepy —The Slender Man (Andrew Wishart)! Best Recreation — 70s Doctor Who Monsters (Christine Halse and Joseph Halse)! Honourable Mention for Fabric Manipulation —Fish Pond (Emma Roberts)! Best Workmanship — Puff & Perry on the Other Side of Boring (Petra Kufner and Antje Brand)! Best Presentation — Tribal (Rebecca Lale)! Best In Class, Group — Puff & Perry on the Other Side of Boring (Petra Kufner and Antje Brand)! Best In Class, Solo — Tribal (Rebecca Lale)! Journeyman division:! Judge’s Favourite — Life is a Dream (Loretta and Tim Morgan)! Best Workmanship — A Glamorous Evening of Galactic Domination (Jennifer Skwarski)! Clockwise from top: Best Presentation — A Message from the Ministry of Magic (Sabine Furlong)! Aratalindale; Coliseum (Peter Best In Class — Coliseum (Peter Westhead)! Westhead and Jackie); Elsa (Nicole Keller); Tribal Master Division: ! (Rebecca Lale); Puff & Perry Most Beautiful — The Odyssey9 Dress (Miki Dennis)! on the Other Side of Boring Workmanship and Attention to Detail — We Dance (Laura Hunt)! (Petra Kufner and Antje Best Workmanship — Aratalindale (Maggie and Mike Percival)! Brand). Best Presentation — Aratalindale! Images courtesy of GilesG Best In Show — Aratalindale Photography. WSFS — Site Selection keen), and their cider had left me Fan Village Highlights concussed, so I have to admit I Kansas City will host the 2016 was really impressed. The In the Library this afternoon, Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II. You Montreal team are so cool, and we have book launches from can find out more at Canadian Worldcons are always Xoum (noon-1pm) and midamericon2.org! the best. I should totally vote Elsewhen (Magician In The Programme Updates Montreal.! Attic, now with added magician) (1:30pm-2:30pm). Peter Hamilton is signing at 3pm.! —Doug S! Bundoran’s press event will be Recycling Saturday Night Party Report held from 4:30pm-5:30pm. ! All the waste at ExCeL is hand I like it in Dublin. I went to their Finnish author Emmi Itäranta sorted for recycling: if you think stall, where they gave me a will have a signing in the something is recyclable, please green ribbon thingy, some Taytos Helsinki in 2017 bid tent at 1 put it in the recycling bins. ! and beer (which I drank, like a pm. In the Fan Village, David fool), so hurrah for the Irish. Little Boxes Gullen’s Mind Seed anthology M’hinge! The Finns were still Please don’t remove items from will be launching from partying (no surprise there). boxes on the Green or in the 5pm-8pm. They were mixing their drinks surrounding area — these are willy-nilly. Although I went materials for Kid’s Programme.! looking for cream-cheese-and- Please stop by the DC17 tent to bear, I had to have cream-cheese- Under 12s collect your prizes!! and-chili. The guys from DC had Please ensure that any under 12s HODOR loaned their tent out to the you are responsible for are people from Sasquan, next year, Hodor? Hodor!! within your view at all times. —Hodor ! so I duly queued up for some GPS and Skype don’t count, and cheese and some fruit, but I got neither does the telepresence E-Cigarettes there just too late for beer. I robot.! Just a reminder that, as the Code discovered today that the punch Of Conduct says, the use of from DC is an alcohol-free sort DC17 Prizewinners eCigs is not permitted anywhere of brew, so I drank all their cider, The winners of DC17’s Truth is inside ExCeL.! contaminant-free. It seemed like Stranger than Science Fiction the right thing to do. In a contest are Rhiannon Gotts, Judy Masquerade Photos separate room, set apart from the Scheiner, and Simon Clements. Photos of all participants will be green, there was Barfleet, a The winners of the book design available from the Masquerade curious crowd who had served contest are Grace (The Lord of the Info Desk in the Exhibits Hall.! the most frightening shots I have Pandas), Nathan Greene (We are Access Ribbons seen. It’s surprising that stuff is All Good Robots), Ji Shaoting allowed. Montreal have a bid for (Days with My Doctor, by Rose), If attendees have an access two-oh-seventeen, so a trip to Lolek Mariotek (Interview with a ribbon they are entitled to access their tent was a must; they had Vampire), Agata (Monster Tales), seating. Remember that not all hockey to play (competition was and Pat Russell (GRRM GoT). disabilities are readily visible.

Membership stats At the end of yesterday, Loncon 3 had 10,660 total registrations and 7,033 warm bodies, made up of:

Full Memberships Day Memberships Exhibits Programme Warm Bodies Adult YA Child Infant and Hall Passes passes and Events

Thursday 4,206 347 155 43 224 275 N/A 5,250 Friday 4,6899393 172 52 606 293 N/A 6,222 Saturday 4,814 400 181 55 1080 305 198 7,033

Totals are cumulative, but don’t include all of Saturday’s walk-ins. Guest of Honour, Guest and Comp memberships are included in Adult. This issue was produced by Zara Baxter, with help from Jan van ’t Ent. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Here’s a good one for the Worldcon: it’s Smile and Wave to Tourists Day! Everyone find a tourist to bewilder! !

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Reminder for Volunteers hours, in advance so you will Heroes of the Convention" and Staff" can spend them before the Fan The convention chairs are Village closes.! The Staff Lounge (at the back of handing out special awards to the Fan Village) is stocked with Tiptree Cookbooks For Sale " those who have worked complimentary soft drinks. The particularly hard to make sure You too can bake like Pat kettle is always on and the bean we all have a fabulous time. If Cadigan!! bags are all plumped up. You you see someone wearing a gold can also recharge electronic Green Apple Books (Dealers hero medal do go and embarrass devices here.! Island P) has copies of the two them/buy them a drink.! cookbooks published in support Every hour worked during the Anubis Gates/Post Human of the James Tiptree Jr literary convention before around 11am Future" award, for £10 each.! tomorrow gets you a groat We are very sorry for the late worth £1. You can use groats to The Bakery Men Don’t See is a start of the 3:30pm Anubis Gates buy food and drinks in the Fan Hugo-nominated collection of presentation and the subsequent Village (until the end of the recipes and anecdotes. It delay in the start of the Post Dead Dog party) and at some includes recipes for baked Human Future with Astronomer dealer’s tables. Volunteers who goods, tips and baking stories by Royal Lord Martin Rees. Thank work more than 15 hours qualify 55 fans and SF professionals. Her you for your patience as our for a special T-shirt ! Smoke Rose up from Supper intrepid volunteer staff includes an introduction by A volunteer raffle is held at 4, 6 performed miracles in re-staging Karen Joy Fowler (a founding and 9pm each day. The Sunday 4 Second Stage for these very mother of the Tiptree), main and 6pm raffles also include 2 different items. ! course recipes, tips, and cooking VIP invitations for the Hugo stories by 72 fans and science Shipping It Home" awards (you will need to be at fiction professionals. The the draw to claim this prize).! Need to ship your books or other cookbooks were edited by GoH Dealers’ Zone treasures off into Only hours recorded on the Jeanne Gomoll in 1991 and 1993.! the world beyond Loncon 3? spreadsheet available from the Worldwide Book Services is a desk count so make sure you shipping service available in the collect a paper copy (and your convention. Find it by going in ribbon!) and have it completed the main entrance to the Exhibits with the day, hours, task and Hall, turn left, go all the way have it signed by a person in down to the SW corner, and it's charge of the task. You can then in front of the big shipping collect your groats, T-shirt and container near the costume raffle entry.! displays.! Help With Move Out" Tai Chi on the Green" Volunteers who sign up to help We’re sorry we announced Tai with the tear down of the Chi on Sunday morning when Auditorium tonight with get 2 10there definitely wasn’t. There’s groats per hour and hours will The Last Word About Groats" another chance to join in with count double. If you sign to help Tai Chi on the Green, tomorrow with Move Out shifts on Loncon beer glasses plastics cost morning at 10am. Honestly.! Monday and Tuesday you will £2 which is, of course, two also get paid double groats/ standard volunteer hours!! ! Pigeon Passed?" Curt Phillips, TAFF delegate, speaks:" Please join the Loncon 3 Tom Flick asked me quite a long time ago to write something — in my role Lehrer Chorus for a rousing as the TAFF delegate — for the LonCon 3 newsletter, but up till now I rendition of Poisoning Pigeons in have failed her utterly. In a stunning leap of convenient reasoning I'm the Park. Sunday at 5:45pm at the going to claim that it's not my fault (it totally is, but I'm going to claim Wizard of the Pigeons exhibit in it isn't anyway and hope that no one will notice...) because LonCon 3 the Exhibit Hall. ! is just too much fun to do anything but enjoy it. There's 12 incredible Souvenir Books for Day things going on all around me at any particular time, and any one of Members" them is easily enough to make my day a happy one.! Any day members who have But I would like to take enough space in this issue of The Pigeon Post to already registered can collect a thank all the many people around the world who've supported TAFF Souvenir Book from registration.! and made it possible for me to be here at LonCon 3 this week. As I was sitting in the Excel Centre Food Court, writing this note, a friend Cats Of Fandom" stopped to say hello and invited me to walk along to a party at The Do you know the famous cats of Fox. I did, and met several of her friends from Australia there. None of fandom? Come to stand 11 and them knew me but immediately we were all laughing and talking as if see if you can match well known we'd always known each other. And in a way we had, because we authors to even better known cats.! were all a part of this wonderful thing called Fandom.! Sheffield Monthly Pub Meet Many years ago at one of my first conventions, the late Bob Tucker Cancelled" came over to a shy neofan called Curt Phillips, shook my hand and said, "Curt, your life is about to change forever, and you'll forever be They are all at Loncon 3. If you grateful because you're part of us, now. Welcome to Fandom!"! see someone from Sheffield, stand next to them and drink Thanks, Bob. You were right.! something.! Programme Updates" WSFS Site Selection Souvenir Book" Business Meeting Report" Sunday 6pm, Max Galdstone Loncon 3 would like to apologise will not be appearing at Sulky Kansas City was officially seated to Dr José Luis Galache of the Giant Robots. ! as the 2016 Worldcon, Minor Planets Centre for MidAmeriCon II. Their There will be a reading by Jean accidentally omitting a credit for committee gave an initial Johnson at 9pm in CS13 and the Souvenir Book article Iain M presentation, introducing their Jordin Kare has been added to Banks Honoured with Asteroid, guests: Kinuko Y Craft, Patrick Tall Technical Tales, also Sunday originally published at and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, 9pm.! tinyurl.com/ksf5xwc.! Tamora Pierce, Michael A Burlesque Workshop is taking Swanwick, and Toastmaster Pat Parties" place on Sunday at 9pm in CS6. Cadigan.! In the Fan Village this evening, It is limited to 16 people and you After fielding questions for we have our regularly scheduled must sign-up at the Information future seated Worldcons and for parties from DC in 2017, Desk. This session is for self- bids for years up to 2023, the Archipelacon and Nippon in identified women over the age of Business Meeting adjourned for 2017. We’ll also have the first 18 only.! the year. There will be no WSFS party from MidAmeriCon II, Monday at 10am sees a Business Meeting on Monday.! the newly-seated 2016 Worldcon. ! Kaffeeklatsch with David Video of the Business Meeting is Montreal in 2017 couldn’t Hartwell. Ben Yalow will not be being uploaded to YouTube as escape from (Ops) Rover so on the panel for Running Fortran time and bandwidth permit. See they’re back again.! on the Mainfraime: Computer kevin-standlee.livejournal.com for Technologies that Refuse to Die, more information: video from In the London Suite, Monday 11am.! previous days is already online, Brotherhood10 Without Banners and today’s should be available will be holding an evening of on Monday. karaoke. This issue was produced by Ang Rosin, with help from Jan van 't Ent, Flick and the Secret Masters of Groats. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Today is Indonesian Independence Day. Actually, it’s the anniversary of when they started to fight the dastardly Dutch: it took them another four years to actually get rid of them. Is it just me, or is Jan looking a bit imperial? !

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Best Novel Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit US / Orbit UK)! Best Novella “Equoid“ by Charles Stross (Tor.com, 09-2013)! Best Novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars“ by Mary Robinette Kowal (maryrobinettekowal.com / Tor.com, 09-2013)! Best Short Story “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere“ by John Chu (Tor.com, 02-2013)! Best Related Work “We Have Always Fought: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative“ by Kameron Hurley (A Dribble of Ink)! Best Graphic Story “Time“ by Randall Munroe (XKCD)! Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) Gravity written by Alfonso Cuarón & Jonás Cuarón, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Esperanto Filmoj; Heyday Films; Warner Bros.)! Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) Game of Thrones: “The Rains of Castamere“ written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, directed by David Nutter (HBO Entertainment in association with Bighead, Littlehead; Television 360; Startling Television and Generator Productions)! Best Editor - Short Form Ellen Datlow! Best Editor - Long Form Ginjer Buchanan! Best Professional Artist Julie Dillon! Best Semiprozine Lightspeed Magazine edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki! Best Fanzine A Dribble of Ink edited by Aidan Moher! Best Fancast SF Signal Podcast by Patrick Hester! Best Fan Writer Kameron Hurley! 11Best Fan Artist Sarah Webb! John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (not a Hugo)! Sofia Samatar Cloakroom Foz Meadows, Hugo Fan Writer Finalist, writes Please note that the ExCeL As human habitations go, London is not merely old, but ancient: a Cloakroom closes at midnight. If phoenix-city rising, over and over, from its own stubborn ashes. Small you have not collected your wonder, then, that Hidden London has practically become an SFFnal possessions by that time you will subgenre in its own right. In our minds, the tricksy Londons of Neil have to wait until it reopens Gaiman’s Neverwhere, China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun, Ben Aaronovitch’s tomorrow morning. ! Peter Grant series, Tom Pollock’s Skyscraper Throne, Maureen Johnson’s Kids Company The Name of the Star and countless other stories, both past and present, all inform its reality as a place both impossibly real and, really, Exhibits would like to thank the impossible. London is clotted with ghosts and magic, her Spring- many anonymous donors who Heeled Jacks and killer queens all dancing to the bonesaw song of the supported Kids Company to TARDIS. It is a place to love, to be drunk, to get lost in; it is a home bring their display, and the and pilgrimage both, older than the Roman Empire, and if you treat children who built it, to either it or its inhabitants without due consideration, it will open its Loncon3. Kids Company was glass and concrete jaws and snap. And then, quite possibly, offer to founded by Camila buy you a drink.! Batmanghelidjh in 1996, and provides practical, emotional The last time I visited London, I spent the bus-ride down in the and educational support to company of a former Uzbek spy whose public defection made the vulnerable inner-city children.! papers, then went to stay in a street where the houses looked so dystopian that they’ve appeared in multiple SF films. So wherever SF, Fantasy and The Great War you’ve come from, wherever you’re going, welcome to London. You’re Edward James has set up a part of her story, now, and all she asks in return is that you tell it.! website celebrating SF and F DC17 Trivia Contest Orion/Gollancz, so please come writers during the Great War: along and see what you can find.! fantastic-writers-and-the-great- DC17 is still running the Truth is war.com. Please get in touch with Stranger than (Science) Fiction Riddle Me This him if you have suggestions for trivia contest: head over to the The winner of the Tolkien additional writers, particularly Fan Village for your chance to Society’s riddle competition is non-British ones. ! win some great prizes.! Lynne Batik: please go to their Gestetner Currency Conversion Dealers’ Zone table (10) to collect your prize. ! Rob Hansen’s Gestetner 420, If hotels or restaurants offer to which is currently hanging about let you pay credit card The winning riddle:! in dark corners of the convention transactions in your home Made of fire, water, earth and air,! and had a starring role inn the currency, rather than pounds And every customer takes two pair.! programme item Fanzines From sterling, please remember that What am I?! The Time Before Photocopiers, will the exchange rate used may not Money-Making Tips be homeless after the be the most favourable to you! ! Barclays Bank will pay a £100 convention. If you want to own a Everything Must Go! piece of fanzine history then reward if you return any of the email [email protected]: We really, really don’t want to many bikes they have lost to one free to a good home.! take all these books home, so of their branches.! please help us empty the Library Disco by the end of the con. On Sunday and Monday, all books Remember that there will be a are free for the taking: the only British rock disco in Second limit is how many you can carry. Stage this evening from 10pm. There’s a great selection of books There’s another bar in there, too, old and new, including many if the main bar is busy. 11volumes very kindly donated by

This issue was produced by Flick, with help from Jan van ’t Ent. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Illo by Sue Mason. It’s Thrift Shop Day: if you forgot to bring the box of stuff set aside for the Fan Fund Auction, you may as well give it to the charity shop instead. !

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Thank you! Sunday Night Party Report who show their Loncon 3 badge. The discount is group rate for an Loncon 3 has been a great Do the Finns (Archipelacon) ever individual entry, and is available convention and we want to get sleep? I am glad they were up to and including 20 August: thank everyone who has partying still, but I think it just ✦ Tower of London (Tube: attended this weekend, everyone might make me break down and Tower Hill. DLR: Tower who has volunteered, and all weep if I had to pick up their bar Gateway) those hardworking people who bill. It’s the same in DC, ✦ Banqueting Hall (Whitehall) have spent the last six years Montreal is the same. They just (Tube: Westminster) making it happen. seem to keep going with glee, ✦ Kensington Palace (Tube: but if I were engaged in a similar A special thanks to our Kensington High St) game I‘d be dead by the end of wonderful guests, John Clute, ✦ Hampton Court Palace (DLR day three. I had hoped to find Malcolm Edwards, Chris Foss, to Canning Town, then Jubilee Kansas still plying their trade Jeanne Gommoll, Robin Hobb, Tube to Waterloo, then NR with their pork and their five and Bryan Talbot. (South West Trains) train to kinds of goo. When I looked at Hampton Court. It takes about We wish Iain M Banks could have their tent I was briefly dismayed an hour. Sit on the right hand been here, and all miss him. to discover a substitute crew, but side to see Battersea Power —The Chairs! it seems MidAmeriCon II‘s the Station. Art Show pick-ups same tent who last night were just running a bid, and their ribs Sound Effect Contest Please remember to pick up and their wings and their cider Can you imagine the sound of purchased artwork. If you are an were meant to thank voters for travelling through time? Is it like artist, remove your unsold work all that we did. I’d heard that flying in a plane? Or more of a before 1pm. Artist Showcases some group in a nearby room dreamy, zero-gravity ambient can be collected from the table (small) had been trying to get us sound? Could you create it? outside N11 after Exhibits closes. to sing but I skipped all that Angel Media Productions CIC, a nonsense and stayed in the hall. Dave Kyle says Hi! nonprofit social enterprise Karaoke’s not really my thing. Dave Kyle has attended all discovering and developing The Croatians had built us a previous Worldcons, including diverse talent in media and beach to enjoy, with schnapps both previous Loncons. music, need the sound effect for and liqueurs we could taste Unfortunately, his doctor felt the our audio book of ‘Danny and which had tickled my tastebuds journey would be too much for the Codebreaker‘ by Paul but helped to destroy a few him this year. In response to Morris. The book is about a boy brain cells I fear I can’t waste, those who’ve sent him messages, who travels back in time to meet but the Japanese tent, with their Dave said: “This is a Worldcon Alan Turing after he dials ‘15798‘ sake and sweets and wasabi- historical moment for me—being on his mobile phone and hears tinged crisps and the rest, makes so far away from where I should “a faint high-pitched whine, far me hope that the Nippon bid be! Thank you for the greeting off but coming nearer”. We‘ll use easily beats all the others and and ‘hello’ back to you all!” the best sound effect in the audio comes out the best. book and you could also win a New Worldcon Bid 12See History On Us prize and royalties from the sale The Paris in 2023 bid has now of the audio book. Get more If you plan to do some officially launched. Please visit information, or submit a sound sightseeing after the con, their table in the Fan Village or file, by emailing Historic Royal Places (hrp.org.uk) go to parisin2023.org for more [email protected]. have a discount for attendees information. Recycling, Fannish WORLDCONWOCKY: Next year’s Eastercon wants ’Twas Worldcon, and the myriad fans your lanyard (please) to re-use at Did queue up at the eastern gate: the convention. Once you are All whimsy were the Beeblebears, finished with your lanyard, take And the panting people late. it to the Dysprosium table in the “Beware the Dealers‘ Room, my son! Fan Village (by the entrance) or The signed editions, that rare first catch! find one of the committee. They Beware the TV tie-in, and shum need around 1,300. Thank you! The frumious Cumberbatch!“ Kansas City Dispatch He took his credit card in hand: Long time the Game of Thrones he sought— Did you know that Missouri can So rested he by the Fan Lounge tree, pronounced multiple ways? And stood awhile in thought. “Missouree“ or “Missouruh“ or And, as in uffish thought he stood, if you‘re Native American, Mih- The bar was calling out his name, SOO-rih. All from the word The bid parties with beer and food, “ouemessourita” which means Were also saying the same. “One who has a canoe” or “You One, two! One, two! And through and through can‘t take the sky from me”— The credit card went clicky-clack! scholars are still debating. He found those purchases were true Nearest Coin Laundry And filled his luggage sack. “And, has thou slain the bank account? For the benefit of fans who are in Come to my arms, my poor skint boy!“ the middle of a long trip, My Worldcon purchases in large amount needing to do laundry and not He chortled in his joy. wanting to face hotel laundry ’Twas Worldcon, and the myriad fans prices, there is a coin-operated Did queue up at the eastern gate: laundry at 47 Freemasons Road, All whimsy were the Beeblebears, just north of ExCel. To get there, And the panting people late. cross over the DLR tracks at —Alasdair Hepburn Custom House station (west end of ExCel), then head east: batteries cheaper than the shops Mensa Dinner Freemasons Road is the first near and in ExCel. street to the left, and Custom There will be a Mensa dinner at Cleaning Services will be on the FitGit 7:30pm, at 07 Zero Sette Italian Restaurant. All are welcome! left just past Coolfin Road. The highest score we’ve received Freemasons Road has a is Tommy Waring’s 23,678 steps. Dead Dog pharmacy and several small Which, curiously, equals the total Remember the post-con party is restaurants, plus a discount store number of pints drunk at the con in the Fan Village tonight! that stocks sundries such as so far.…

Membership stats At the end of yesterday, Loncon 3 had 10,762 total registrations and 7,439 warm bodies, made up of:

Full Memberships Day Memberships Exhibits Programme Warm Bodies Adult YA Child Infant and Hall Passes passes and Events Thursday 4,206 347 155 43 224 275 N/A 5,250 Friday 4,689 393 172 52 606 293 N/A 6,222 Saturday 124,814 400 181 55 1,080 305 198 7,033 Sunday 4,831 401 183 55 1,445 315 209 7,439 Totals are cumulative, but don‘t include Sunday walk-ins. Guest of Honour, Guest and Comp memberships are included in Adult. This issue was produced by Zara Baxter, with help from Jan van ‘t Ent and Flick. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Today is the start of Cố Trạch, which celebrates Trần Hưng Đạo. How many Mongol invasions have you held off this weekend?. !

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A Message From The Consuls! How To Design Your didn’t bother me in the least; The co-consuls of Londinicon III, Worldcon Bid Logo! with a busy schedule, sometimes that’s the only reasonable option. Stephanus Cooperii and Ælys Look at your city. Does it have a No, it was the rustle, rustle, Lawsonii, took a few moments phallic monument or building? rustle as she delved into her to speak with The Pigeon Post.! The bigger and pointier and plastic bags for the sandwich “We are thrilled by all the fans generally manlier the better. Use makings, painstakingly coming to Londinicon. The that. Now draw a rocket ship constructing each sandwich and Londinium in CCXIV bid was flying round it. Congratulations, —the coup de grâce—the click- fantastic. They travelled to so Paris! You’re done. ! squirt-click as she flicked open many towns and cities WSFS News! the ketchup bottle that was promoting the bid, including occupying the seat next to her, isles to the west that are not on Following Loncon 3’s failure to put a liberal amount of sauce on any maps. We knew that a achieve the WSFS-mandated her sandwich, and then flicked location south of Hadrian’s wall minimum beer consumption, the lid down again.! would make it easier for more and the convention’s subsequent fans to attend, but the response appeal, the WSFS Sukimisen ja It was almost amusing. Almost.! has been simply amazing.“! Pilkunnussinnan Komitea has —Jeff Wooliscroft ! ordered the creation of a sub- “The fields and stadia built for Irate Letters From Staff! committee to investigate the the recent Olympic games issue of whether Imperial Pints I just saw the header on Issue 12. provided us with a good space. or US Pints should be used. A While the prospect of having People think of the area east of motion from Kevin Standlee to another go-around in order to Londinium as an uninhabited use Litres was ruled by the Chair attend missed programme items marshland, but our camp is to be out of order. ! is intriguing (if transtemporally quite comfortable, only a few problematic), I must warn you Lunchmakers! hours walk from the City, and than neither I, Zoe or Kath will much less expensive than It was a tad irksome to find accept another run of eight hour staying within the city walls.“! myself seated behind a woman days. Not even if Isaac Asimov “If you have good tents and making sandwiches during one himself rises from the dead to bring in sausages and plenty of of the panels.! ask us personally.! ale, fans are quite happy. They She ate them once they were —Misha from Info Desk! just want a chance to talk about made too, of course, but that the latest epics and dramas, and ! maybe to pick up a scroll or two Royal Victoria Docks, Friday with some new stories.“! Dear Mr. Flick, “To put on any convention of I read with interest your convention newspaper. this scale you have to make Truly we live in an age of marvels! I fear that I must take issue with one thing: your sacrifices, but fortunately King suggestion that a letter of comment would not arrive Bassianus and the gods have until after the convention was over. found ours pleasing.“! In today's great cities such as London, Paris, or your own lovely New York, the postal service offers many “Just remember13 our Code of collections per day. Thus, there is ample opportunity Conduct: During the Peace for letters to travel between New York addresses, even declared for Londinicon, no !during the weekend. taking of Picts without their I remain, permission.“! Yours sincerely, —Tom Becker! Steven Cain (Mrs.) Dead Dog Party Report! Probably A Bad Idea! The Serious Box! “I need a reporter,“ the Editor Doug S has indicated his said, as she drained the last willingness to be convinced to Beer Glasses! dregs from her glass, “an erudite do a live reading of his collected We still have beer glasses! fellow, a wordsmith, well-read. party reports in the Bandstand They’re £2, or two groats, and Do you think you’ve the this evening, if provided with beer. ! you can get them in the Fan requisite class?“ The old man Fire Sale! Village.! sighed deep, raised his pint, took Fan Funds! a sup. She asked him again, with There will be a fire sale of a smile. At last he gave in, just to unwanted and abandoned items Thank you to everyone who shut the girl up: “If you need at 8pm on the Green this has helped out with and me, I’ll give it a trial.“ “I’ll need evening. The highlight of the donated to the Fan Funds this it by nine,“ said the Editor, sale will be our fabulous weekend. A total of £2,100 has “please, so we’ll have it in time collection of small children, been raised, including £1,700 to include.“ The old man looked gathered each evening by Ops in from the auction and £420 up with a terrified wheeze. “And our “Can You Point“ sweeps. ! from the Casino. In the Art not have a lie-in? How rude!“ The available selection includes Show, the late Dave Cox’s The editor sighed with a shake some lovely babies (too young to artwork also raised a of her head. “But you could point), a delightful pair of 6- substantial sum for TAFF, but write the thing in advance, just year-old Finnish twins (who did we’re awaiting the final total. ! tweak it a bit as you’re going to not understand the question) Reports that current and bed. That, at least, might just and a hormonal teenaged boy former administrators have give you a chance.“ “I will show who has spent the entire been rolling in the cash would her,“ he thought as she left for weekend asleep in the Teen be completely made up. With the bar, “I’ll do what she asks Lounge. ! lots of auction stock left over and far more; I will write in a The Word From Ops! and doubtless more to come, style that is weirder by far than though, some of the team are she’s had in her inbox before.“ It turns out that TARDISes don’t looking forward to further So the poor aged man went to actually move by themselves. If fundraising next weekend at parties all night, and he drank all you are over the age of 25 and Shamrokon, so they’ve still got the free booze he could, and then have a current clean TARDIS time for that.! stayed up till two while licence (note that you need both Ken Brown! attempting to write with the skill parts of it for the insurance!) that he felt that he should. The then please report to Ops. ! Long-time fan Ken Brown Editor peered at her inbox each The League of Fan Printers ! sadly passed away recently. day as his work from the parties His daughter, Abi, will be rolled in. When she read what After complains about the abuse raising a glass in his honour at he’d written, her shock and and overheating of the the Lit Beers table from 6pm dismay drove her back to her newsletter printers, the this evening in the Fan Village. tonic and gin. While his work Newsletter team wishes to Please join her to remember was bizarrely, uniquely apologise to the poor printers her Dad. ! involved. We also appreciate the expressive (unseen heretofore in First Thursday Pub Meet! an amateur), he’d written his dutiful continuation of service exploits in weirdly obsessive without too much rattling of London SF fans meet on the cross-rhymed anapæstic cogs and only minor eating of first Thursday of each month heptameter. She could do paper sheets.! at the Melton Mowbray pub without any more pressure and Speak Into My Chest! on Holborn. If you’ve enjoyed the convention and want to stress. It was clear that the man Following the Retro and Hugo was deranged but the deadline socialise some more, please Ceremonies, we have a great come along. Special meeting was close, it was time to roll joke about lapel microphones. press. “What the13 fuck,“ she said, on this coming Thursday for Ask us in the bar later. ! “run it unchanged.“! all you visiting fans.

This issue was produced by Flick, with help from Jan van ’t Ent and Alison Scott. Masthead by Jeanne Gomoll. Apparently, it’s Bad Poetry Day. Such a shame that this is the final issue and so we won’t have a chance to include any further Vogon-worthy contributions. We’ve been asked to apologise for the use of the word ‘fuck’ in this newsletter.