Someone wrote in [personal profile] kinzel 2006-02-10 09:05 pm (UTC)

Steve I refuse to order Crystal Dragon twice just to get your ranking higher. :))
I'm sorry to say that I won't be at Boskone. I will be going to Stellarcon. I have a couple of reasons for this choice. First when I went to both sites and looked for guests all Boskone showed was
Guest of Honor: Ken MacLeod
Official Artist: Donato Giancola
Special Guest: Cory Doctorow
Featured Filker: Steve Macdonald
Hal Clement Science Speaker: William K. Hartmann
and nobody else.
While Stellarcon showed this.
GUESTS OF HONOR
Richard Hatch - Media GoH Lynn Abbey - Writer GoH
Actor from both Battlestar Galactica series Coauthor and coeditor of the Thieves' World series

Sean K. Reynolds - Gaming GoH Raven Mimura - Artist GoH
Game designer for Dungeons & Dragons Artist for Dungeons and Dragons & Magic the Gathering
SPECIAL GUESTS
Aaron Allston John Ringo
Star Wars author Author of A Hymn Before Battle and Gust Front
Steven Brust Michael Stackpole
Author of the Vlad Taltos series Star Wars and Battletech author

Elaine Cunningham JD Wiker
Star Wars and Forgotten Realms author Game designer for Star Wars d20

Simon Hawke Timothy Zahn
Author of the Time Wars and Wizard of 4th Street series Hugo Award winner and Star Wars author
LITERARY GUESTS
Marilynn Byerly James Maxey
Davey Beauchamp Karen McCullough
Julie Cochrane Tee Morris
Gina Farago Jana Oliver
Doug Hewitt Michael D. Pederson
Paula Jordan Stephen Mark Rainey
Tom Kratman Tony Ruggiero
Anthony R. Karnowski Allen Wold

ART
Scott Rorie Richard Spake
[sic] Productions Daniel Trout

FILM/TV
Dan Johnson Jen McCollom
Robert Harris James Roberts
Cheralyn Lambeth

GAMING
FANDOM Kelly Lockhart

LIVE PERFORMANCE The Dolls White Plectrum
A unique performance ensemble Aka. Keith Brinegar - filker popular at NC and VA cons

Quite a difference. Now I see Boskone has their programming up which shows a lot more authors.
Second reason was the room prices.
Boskone $137 Stellacon $75.
I will be staying 3 nights so that makes a large difference.

Final reason was I thought it might be a little warmer in NC.

Any chance you two will make it out to CA. for Worldcon?

Thomas Monaghan

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