Shortest Con Report Ever (you know, except for the shorter ones)

At WisCon 28 I did not get to one single academic paper, though I heard they went great. I'm confident the academic track is only going to get better now that Joan Haran is the boss of it.

I didn't get to talk to Cheryl Morgan for more than ten seconds about the cricket or anything else.

I rarely had a conversation of more than ten seconds with anyone.

Grace Dugan and Elizabeth Wulff, the two Australian WisCon newbies who blame me for getting them there, told me they had a fabulous time. But they would say that, wouldn't they?

Yes it was me who heckled Victor at the closing ceremonies. It's an Australian thing, okay?

I got to hear really scary ghost stories and as a result did not sleep so well. The culprits were Kelly Link and Nisi Shawl and Joan Haran and Scott and Kat. Next time a dog touches me with an ice cold nose I am going to have a heart attack and die. I hope you lot can live with that.

I attended four different reading sessions (a WisCon record for me!). They were AMAZING. Thank you (in strict alphabetical order): Chris Barzak, Gwenda Bond, Richard Butner, Karen Joy Fowler, Andrea Hairston, John Kessel, Ellen Kushner, Kelly Link, Laurie J. Marks (read beautifully by Diane Silver), Jim Munroe, Christopher Rowe, Caroline Stevermer, Sheree Thomas, Pam Welland and Scott Westerfeld. Go buy their books this very instant. Goddesses all of them! (Yes, Conflux people, they get to be goddesses too. It's wrong to discriminate against our North American friends.)

But most of all: thank you Betsy Lundsten and Victor Raymond and everyone on the convention organising committee (except me, cause thanking myself would be weird) for putting on one hell of a show.

New York City, 2 June 2004

© 2004 Justine Larbalestier

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