Listen, guys. I wasn’t just making conversation when I said I wished I could be at the Worldcon this year. I really do like cons, and I’ve been thinking.
There’s going to be a Windycon in November. That’s only a couple months away, and at Windycon, I wouldn’t have to face quite as many problems of getting in and out of elevators in a wheelchair, or driving in heavy traffic, or being just a little too far from my medical support systems and what the dickens am I going to do when I discover I’ve forgotten to bring that pink and white candy-striped pill that I have to swallow with my first bite of breakfast or my nose will fall off? (Joke. I don’t have one of those. I do have fifteen or sixteen other kinds which do the job of making me appear reasonably human, though.)
There are a few other considerations, of course, but nothing that doesn’t get a lot easier if the con is in the suburbs, and a bit nearer to where I live, instead of downtown in a city which I happen to be fond of for many reasons but can’t quite handle right now.
So unless some sort of game-changing event happens between now and then, I’ll try to be there. Check the blog in October and I’ll keep you posted on how it looks.
Jame Flanagan says:
Windycon, here I come
September 1, 2012, 12:12 pmStephen Kehoe says:
Got to meet your lovely wife at Chicon and hope to meet you at Windycon. I work close by to you and live not far off as well so if you need any assistance getting back and/or forth, please feel free to call upon me.
October 21, 2012, 6:36 amJame Flanagan says:
Has any decision been made about Windy City Con?
October 29, 2012, 12:00 amJim
the blog team says:
As of now, Fred is still planning to be there, health permitting.
Join us Saturday at noon for “75 Years of Fred”: “Fred Pohl, the dean of living science-fiction writers, has been publishing for an astonishing 75 years. Join Fred, his wife Betty Ann Hull, and his webmaster Leah A. Zeldes, as Leah interviews our own local Great Man.” (Lilac D).
October 30, 2012, 7:05 pm