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NOTES on ELECTRONIC MEDIA: We will videotaping portions of this convention for posterity. You are now a part of history. Speaking of video, there is a video room -- the Wilson Room on the mezzanine level -- where videotapes of past THE CON conventions, including Minicon 11 and MidAmeriCon, may be seen.

NAME TAGS: Because of the size of the oon, and our use of expensive equipment, we are forced to require all convention members to either wear their name tags or show their registration cards in order to enter any convention function or meeting room. We apologize for this inconvenience, but it is absolutely essential. PLEASE — WEAR YOUR NAME TAG!!

COMPLAINTS, INFORMATION, ETC.: If you wish to volunteer to help the convention, or if you have any queries or complaints. please go to the convention Registration LOUNGES: The Twin Cities Room (basement level) is partly Room (Minnesota Room). A message board for those wish— set aside as a lounge for gathering, sitting, talking, ing to leave messages, requests for rides or room—mates, catching breath, reading items just bought in the huckster and so on, can be found there, room, etc. etc. In addition, there is a lounge in the Roosevelt Room on the second floor, especially for filk- COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Are the very frazzled-looking fans singing. with the distinctive blue name tags. If you have a liquor laws problem, request, or any sort of feedback, a blue-tagged LIQJIDS: Non-Minnesotans should take local age limit here is committee member can either help you or point you to the into account in their planning. The appropriate official. 18, Liquor stores close early: 8:00 PM on Friday, 10:00 PM on Saturday. After those hours you can only at about RUNE:; The club fanzine of the Minnesota Science Fiction buy liquor by the drink (or from room service Society, Inc. (Minn-stf) 1s offered to Minicon members $22.00/at.)« Plan ahead, at a special subscription rate of merely $1.00 for an entire year. Sign up in the Registration area. BREAKFAST AT THE COFFEE SHOP: They don't normally dis- tribute breakfast menus after 11:00 am, but you can HUGO AWARDS: Nomination ballots for the Hugos are order breakfast items anytime the coffee shop is open. available in the Registration area. If you are not yet a member of the 1977 World Science Fiction Convention BANQUET: Abuffet-style, all-you-can-eat dinner, with (SunCon, in Miami Beach), you may join at the time you baked ham and turkey, will cost you $8.50. It also send in your ballot; you must be a member of SunCon to guarantees you a good seat for the GoH speeches after- nominate and vote for the Hugos. ward. We must inform the hotel ahead of time as to how many will be attending the banquet, so the deadline for HOSPITALITY SUITE: Odd-numbered rooms from 553 to 563. purchasing banquet tickets is 7 pm on Friday. Wine will Room 563 is a special no-smoking party room. be available at the banquet for an extra charge; choice of Rose or Chablis -- ask your waitress. 4 a

SPEECHIFYING: Seating will be available in the Illinois Room, beginning about 7:00 pm Saturday, for convention members who wish to hear the GoH speeches but are not attending the banquet. ace books DUFF AUCTION: Rusty Hevelin will hold an informal auction between the banquet and the play Saturday evening. All proceeds go to the Down Under Fan Fund, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL: There will be an auction at midnight salutes Saturday. Bring your money and your strongest bidding voice.

ARTISTS: Please pick up any unsold art from the art show at closing time on Sunday. Any art left will be held by minicon

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CHECK-OUT TIME: Has been extended to 5:00 pm on Sunday. ‘poul anderson ursulak.leguin PROGRAM BOOK COVER: Large size (11x17) prints of our marion zimmerbradley fritzleiber delightful cover, signed by the artist, will be on sale for $2.50 during the con. john brunner andre norton edgarrice burroughs alexeipanshin LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN: Minneapolis in '73!! samuelr. delany spiderrobinson Credits lesterdel rey cliffordd.simak philipjoséfarmer roger zelazny The editor wishes to thank: Dave Wixon, intrepid publi- and many, many more. cations assistant, for Most Of The Work on the Progress Reports and general assistance; Jim Odbert, for assistance on the Program Book and for the fine, fine cover; Mike Glicksohn, Denny Lien, and Gordy Dickson, for their intro- on. ductions (and for getting them in in plenty of time); Ken Fletcher, for invaluable assistance and wise words; and EssJay, for dodos, bozos, freehand lettering, ace books puns, A Division of Charter Communications, Inc. peanut butter, and funny noises on the MiniMoog. 1120 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036 A Grosset & Dunlap Company 6 ACE—NUMBER ONE IN SCIENCE FICTION PUBLISHING

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PROGRAM 2130 pm: Debate: "Resolved: Science Fiction Should Get Out of the Classroom and Back into the Cutter Where It Belongs" with Lester del Rey and Ivor Rogers Friday, April 8 -- 3:30 pm: "Creating Exotic Alien Creatures” with Clifford Simak, Gordon R. Dickson, Juanita Coulson, and Noons Registration opens Ruth Berman 1 pm: Huckster Room opens 5:30 pm: Registration, Art Show, Huckster Rooms close 3 pms Art Show opens 6:00pm: BANQUET 4 pms Movie: Everything You Know Is Wrong (70 min.) 7:15 pm: (approximate time) Guest of Honor speeches 6 pms OPENING CEREMONIES 8:30 pms Midwest Side Story 6:30 pms Da Fred Haskell Song 'n' Slide Show 10:00 pm: Hospitality Suite opens 8 pms Meet the Pros - Autographing Session 10:00 pm: Movies: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (88 min.) Twilight Zone - “The Space 8:30 pm: Hucksters, Art Show close Cemetary" (25 min.) 9:30 pms Hospitality Suite cpens (Rooms 553-561) 12:00 pms Midnight Art Auction 9:30 pm: Movies: The Mouse that Roared (85 min.) 1:00 am: Movies: special surprise feature! cartoon: "Duck Dodgers" 10:00 pm: Registration closes Sunday, April 10 -- Midnight: Movie: Everything You Know Is Wrong 1:10 am: Movie: Five Million Years to Earth 11:00 am: Auction 11:00 am: Huckster Room, Art Show open

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The rules are simple. Each member of Minicon may Our oF TEN ConVENTION § enter once at Uncle Hugo's room in the basement. Each member may enter again at Uncle Hugo's Book- store (where you will find thousands of used books and magazines, over 100 posters, 100's of comics and underground comix, and lots of other stuff not found in Uncle Hugo's room). Each member will be given an entry blank on which to list his name, address, and guess for the title of the 1978 Gor novel. All entries must be in by 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Saturday night, amidst lots of chuckling, the entries will be compiled. In case more than one person suggests the same title, a drawing will be held to determine who the potential winner is for that particular title. Sunday, Uncle Hugo's room will have a list of all suggested titles and the potential winner for each title. Next year, when the new Gor book comes out, the winner (if there is one) will receive a free copy of the book, mailed from Uncle Hugo's in a plain brown wrapper.

(Second place winners get 2/ff¢é/Gdt/Bddkd/AAéts/AK tt/A/ELEE/EOpY/df/PIéAduté/Pldnét+7+a chance to try again next year.

Uncle Hugo's room is open regular Huckster Room hours. Uncle Hugo's Bookstore is open noon-8 p.m. Friday, noon-6 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday. For a free map to show you how to get to the Bookstore, come down to Uncle Hugo's room.

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When I came back to the Cities two years later, I found af the DerRe that the dodo was not extinct; it seemed to have inspired a few people. (Amazin!) Jim Young had written his version of the Dodo Song, Reed Waller drawed a dodoette, and people were using dodos in their dungeons. Jon Singer did a Jewish dodo.

ByS2AY I rejoined MINNEAPA and used the dodo as a stumble-on in several cartoons. I also created a mythos (which It was Spring of '73. For some time now, KQ had been as of yet has not seen publication) concerning playing a strange little tune at odd hours with no dodo revivification, Part of this work appeared in MINNEAPA explanation as to why or what for. Bereft of any musical as a drawing entitled "Defenestration." The drawing showed backup, it was sung by four or five men and went thusly: a member of the Aldebaran Audible (Autobahn?) Society tossing a revivified dodo through a trans-dimensional window. "Oh never be a dodo The dodo was supposed to end up in Mpls, Don't ever be a dodo for the 1973 Worldcon. Since we are still trying to get the 73 Worldcon, this Oh never be a dodo caused a rift in the dimensional space-time relationships and the As far as I'm concerned." dodo is bouncing around > somewhere € waiting until we either get the 73 Worldcon here or drop the subject, so hundred times, I was inspired After hearing this a few that the balance will be restored and the corresponding enough to draw up a cartoon strip about the Curse of the "window" will open, Dodo. This never made it past the pencil stage and was lost amongstthe other flotsam in the place I was then living (7) Koff. in. Which brings us to the current day -- the dodo was Sometime later, I did a strip which was never entitled; chosen as the official pun-symbol for this Minicon, and as it showed a dodo chorus line doing a Roc-ettes number, such is enjoying a wave of popularity which dancing to the aforementioned tune. There was even a big I personally feel is long overdue. Yes, I sanction this dodo-decadence producer in the audience who chose the third dodoine from and plan to capitalize on it in every way the left to star in an upcoming strip. I ((Ed. notes At this point, the manuscript trails off Lured by the promise of instant fame and a little pin in a flurry of dodo tracks and feathers.)) money, I had the ditto travesty delivered to the Minicon 28 29

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