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Program Changes – Late Friday Friday One new item, and participants added to program items: Afternoon 4PM Friday Charles Stross, to “Rumors at the Masquerade Photo Area Passes Speed of Light” 5PM Friday Reading for Steve Nagy (New) Masquerade fan photo signups are taken at the Masquerade Desk by 11AM Saturday Harry Turtledove, to “Golden Duck Awards” the Costume Exhibit in the Concourse. Even those registered by email must check in, give their membership numbers, and pick C’mon Barbie Let’s Go Party up their passes! No pass, no place in the photo area! Roxxor your Soxxors Friday Fashion Additional autographing at SFWA table All Parties are Sheraton North Tower. There will be two additional daily autographing sessions at the Anybody who tells you different is a COWARD and a TRAITOR. SFWA table in the Dealer’s Room. Friday, 3-4PM: Mark Tiedemann Friends of Liad Lounge 9PM-12:30AM 1208 Friday, 4-5PM: Karen Travis Liquid Hot Magma 8PM-MIDNIGHT 1205 (Tanya Huff Party) Boxboro Fandom Confuses Many, Selves Val & Ron’s 2005 9PM-? 1138 Six Plastered in Pre-Party Planning Pugilistic Britain Trip Brotherhood Without 9PM-LATE 1108 Ghouls, zombies, and other undead fen are summoned to help Banners (GRRM fan club) celebrate Boxboro Fandom’s 25th birthday with ‘Boxboro Fandom: Sime~Gen 8PM-MIDNIGHT 1042 Beyond the Grave’ starting at 9PM in Sheraton Suite 708. A Baaad I-Con 23 9PM-1AM 1041 Beatles Songfest will immediately follow the party … it’s last call! Wheatland Press 5PM-7PM 1008 Red Dwarf Smegfest 10PM-1AM 1008 Please be careful of your badge and clip! Writers of the Future 8PM-LATE 10th Floor It is recommended that you put a piece of tape around the clip to help Norwescon 28 9:30PM-? 942 keep it securely closed. There is a replacement fee for a lost badge! Frogsmart’s Tron Party 9PM-? 916 Xerps in 2010 9PM-LATE 908 Mini-Gaylaxicon Albacon 2004 9PM-? 841 Kinda Surprised The Boys Would Admit That League of Evil Geniuses 9:30PM-? 808 Michael Ottings’s Klingon 8PM-MIDNIGHT 716 Gaylaxicon 2005’s queer fandom party lists the following special Birthday Bash events: Boxboro Fandom 9PM-? 708 6:30-9PM: Four queer-themed episodes of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier Nippon 2007 and 9PM-1AM Commonwealth 9PM: Chocolate Symposium – a Gaylaxicon tradition! Bring Columbus 2007 chocolate to share and enjoy a wide variety of chocolate creations! Interaction & LA Con IV 9PM-? Fairfax 10PM-1AM: We’re working on various special guests to do surprise Con Suite 10PM-MIDNIGHT Constitution readings throughout the night. Come join us, since you never know Queer Fandom 6PM -1AM Berkeley who might pop in! Circlet Press 8PM-1AM TBA Chuck & Colette’s Wedcon 9PM-? They Didn’t Say Lost Something? Have you tried Hari Krishna? Video Program Changes Remember to come to the Lost and Found to claim your lost items. Lost and Found is located at the Information Desk in Hynes Hall C/ Note: Republic B is next to Republic A, despite not being on the map in the Concourse. Items found so far include cheques, Massachusetts the program guide. driver’s licenses (2), CDs, membership badges (2), a cell phone, Adds: eyeglasses, a security card, a walking tool, and a hardcover book. 3PM Friday, Republic B: Babylon 5: In the Beginning 7PM Friday, Republic B: Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune miniseries Furry Fandom Feed MIDNIGHT Friday night, H208: Project Moonbase – a Heinlein script The mice are not an hors d’oeuvre. They’re a garnish. 1AM Saturday, Republic B: Star Trek: The Next Generation – Furry Fandom Feed! Meet next to the dragon outside registration by The Best of Patrick Stewart 6:15 tonight (Friday); dinner will be at 6:30PM at the Wisteria House. WSFS Preliminary Much of the work of WSFS occurs in Thursday Party Reviews Business Meeting Report committees that meet between Worldcons. Bill and Dave’s Excellent Stairwell Adventure These include: 3 September 2004: Lead Time for Worldcon Site It was a good night for easing into WorldCon • The Mark Protection Committee, which Selection Up for Grabs; Large Body Count Expected Partying and we started by cutting our extended WSFS’s exclusive right to Noreascon 4 teeth at the Philcon 2004 party. Lead time for Worldcon site selection may be service marks like “Worldcon” and This was a good party throughout the night reduced from three to two years by the World “Hugo” for another decade and with very active conversations. We then walked Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Business successfully defended against a possible down the hall to the LJ and Bloggers Party Meeting, which will convene at 10AM Saturday encroachment on the latter by the where we found volunteer Kate working hard in H210. A motion to do so was given Richard Hugo House of Seattle; to keep the serving plates full of salami and preliminary approval at Torcon 3 and will take • The Hugo Eligibility for the Rest Of the other delicious treats. As we finished our effect if ratified here at Noreascon 4. The World (HEROW) Committee, which blogger beers, we took our leave of party matter is expected to be hotly debated, as it considers whether works initially hostess Mary Kay and made our way to the 3rd was passed by only 5 votes last year. The published outside the USA should have floor parties. preliminary business meeting on Friday set extended Hugo Award eligibility; debate time for this item at 30 minutes. • The Nitpicking and Flyspecking Nippon 2007 and Columbus 2007 shared a All members of Noreascon 4 are automatically Committee (true), which fiddles with the large room to conduct their bid parties. members of WSFS and are eligible to attend official wording of WSFS documents; Nippon 2007, as always, had a terrific spread • the business meeting and participate in policy The Formalization of Long List Entries of interesting Japanese snacks and as well as a making for future Worldcons. (FOLLE) Committee, which compiles wonderful green tea bar. The powdered green the official lists of previous Worldcons, tea (maccha) was the best in our humble Other items due for ratification Friday are: opinion and the Sapporo beer that followed it • their guests, Hugo winners, and related requiring public notification of data; was tasty and refreshing. Columbus 2007 extensions of Hugo eligibility beyond • The Worldcon Runners’ Guide Editorial provided a good spread of snacks and dips st the normal “1 prior year”; and a series of musical duos. Dave thought • Committee, which maintains the clarifying difference between “nominees” operations manual for these shindigs. their crab avocado dip to be surprisingly good. and “works” for moving items from one Hugo category to another; All of these committees are being We then traveled on to the Torcon 3 Thank • setting a default rate for supporting reconstituted for the coming year. People You and Very Dead Dog Party. Thankfully memberships for North American willing to serve should contact Donald Torcon 3 was serving the smoked salmon that rd Science Fiction Conventions (NASFiCs); Eastlake 3 , the presiding officer of the had made them famous at their bid parties in • establishing procedures for tie votes in business meeting, prior to the Saturday years past. We also enjoyed vanilla ice cream site selection and dealing with incapacity session. served with real Canadian maple syrup. Thanks, Eh! of a selected Worldcon committee to All previous and seated Worldcon committees fulfill its obligations. except Torcon 3 provided financial reports. After finishing our bowls of ice cream we New Constitutional amendments to be Three of those committees had accounted for went on walkabout Down Under. The introduced for 1st consideration this year are: all of their funds and gave final reports; Australia 2010 bid had a good solid party and • revising the wording for the Best Torcon 3’s new board of directors is reviewing everyone enjoyed the koala clip-ons the hosts Dramatic Presentation Hugos to its finances. Several seated Worldcons and the were handing out. The line of fans waiting to explicitly mention “theatrical features” Mark Protection Committee thanked Chicon pre-support was impressively long, a good under Long Form and “television 2000, Millennium Philcon, and ConJosé for sign of things to come from the Aussie bid. programs” under Short Form; timely delivery of pass-along funds. Finally we tottered on over to the Sheraton • establishing formal procedures for All WSFS meetings at Noreascon 4 will be South Tower to visit the Kerry-Edwards moving Hugo nominees between adjourned in memory of George Flynn, Support Party. We found everyone already categories; whose long-time service to WSFS was much engaged in intense political discussions • in a lengthy (but non-controversial) admired and appreciated by all. following the president’s GOP acceptance amendment, creating a process to deal speech. We declined to weigh in on any issue with breaking ties in Hugo or site- First Citizen of Fanitopia being discussed, not wanting to use our lofty selection elections. Politics, Fannish Style position as official party reviewers to affect any of these dialogues. Two motions adopted at the preliminary At First Night, spirited campaigning and business meeting were: voting ruled the evening. After trailing Robert While the convention’s First Night party was • Works originally published outside the Heinlein in early returns, Mary Shelley led by fantastic and the Con Suite had steady traffic USA and first published within the USA one vote at mid-evening, and two votes by the throughout the evening, the joint Columbus in 2004 shall be eligible for Hugos in end. The final tally: Shelley 104, Heinlein 102, 2007/Nippon 2007 effort was, in our humble 2005; Wells 53, Verne 49, Doc Smith 33. opinion, the best of the evening, with a tip of • Three specific books had their Hugo the hat going to our friends from Japan for eligibility extended for another year due The Triplanetary Gazette is the daily newsletter the very creative green tea bar — we thank of Noreascon 4, the 62nd World Science Fiction to limited distribution in the year of Convention at the Hynes Convention Center in everyone for their efforts to make last night a original publication. Boston, Massachusetts, 2–6 September 2004 good start for Noreascon 4 partying!