Home from Arisia

[jennythereader]

So Tom and I just got home from Arisia. It was the first Science Fiction Convention either of us had ever been to, and it was a lot of fun.

The panels were very interesting, and most of them managed to stay more or less on topic. The dealers had some very fun stuff, most of which was out of our price range at the moment, but it was still cool to look.

I made it to a few meet and greets, one for LJ and the other for BPAL (a very interesting line of perfume oils), and a bunch of panels. My panels were mostly on building plausible worlds to set a science fiction or fantasy story in. Tom went to several on different aspects of science fiction as a subculture and we both went to some on the science behind the fiction.

The Rocky Horror screening Friday night was a bit disappointing (too much pre-show and so much floor show that it drowned out the movie), but the club dance on Saturday night was a blast. I actually danced!

Cons are absolutely something Tom & I will be doing more of.

Off to read the flist.

Comments

[doobie.livejournal.com]

Hi! Glad to hear you enjoyed Arisia. Arisia was my first overnight convention I ever attended. It was awesome then, and with the exception of last year (I was just kinda pissed at the world then), it has been awesome. Lots of very different people, but a lot of the same type of people together at once is always fun. See you at other cons/next year!

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

See you around!

Other cons?

[datascavenger.livejournal.com]

LunaCon is in March, FWIW. If you ask me in a few weeks, I might make a day trip out of it. This would largely depend on the logistics of the car driving and train schedules to get into and out of Manhattan.

There is also:
Confluence
I-CON
ReaderCon (This one might be perfect for you, but boring to many people that you know.)

I hope that this information is in some way helpful.

Re: Other cons?

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

ReaderCon looks great, the others also look like fun.

[rosefox]

Hi, you friended me... do I know you? Did we meet at the con?

Re: Other cons?

[kimeepower.livejournal.com]

To get to Lunacon from Boston, the best & easiest wasy is to take a bus to Rye, NY or White Plains (apparently they are the same). From the bus station which is also a train station you just take a short $10 (well a couple of years ago it was $10) cab ride to the hotel. I am sooo excited that it is back at the MC Esher hotel this year. Lunacon was my first convention I went to & I love it. There was a time where I would miss an Arisia but I would never miss a Lunacon. Good times.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I should have commented on your journal. I was at the City Building panel (I made the "look at utopian communities here in the states" comment), caught your LJ name in passing, and decided to check it out when I got home.