Busy social calendar and assorted other stuff

[kinzel]

It seems funny to live next door to the middle of nowhere and to still have a busy social calendar, especially when most of the engagements are in cities hundreds (if not thousands)of miles from home. In any case it appears our schedules for Boskone week are rapidly going from pencil to ink; hope we'll be able to catch you there. I should note that I usually manage to make the artshow reception...and which, it turns out, will open just as we're finished our reading Friday night. The question is, will the Friday schedule allow us dinner?

Meanwhile, I woke to snow on the ground from the overnight snowshowers... and glad to see it, even if it was less than an inch. I assume we have more snow in our future as it almost always snows Boskone weekend.... Other than the snow, it was also more or less properly cool today; the temperature right now is 10.3 F according to our electronic weather-reader.

I see that the amazon rating for Crystal Dragon, which can come to a mailbox to you RSN, has been bouncing around in the 1850 to 3500 range. We'd love to see it higher of course -- in the meantime Sword of Orion (ranked at 4970 in books overall) was ranked #84 in the top 100 science fiction, which ought to put Crystal Dragon (currently at 2590 in books)somewhere above it. Who knows what it all means, anyway?

Tomorrow looks to be a busy one -- might drop a note late in the day, unless news catches us sooner.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They have quite a few guests attending. Looks like a good list of people.
http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/program.html

Confirmed Program participants as of January 27, 2006
Claire Anderson
Ellen Asher
Lenny Bailes
Elizabeth Bear
Judith Berman
Beth Bernobich
Patricia Bray
Ginjer Buchanan
Michael A. Burstein
James Cambias
Jeffrey A. Carver
Bruce Coville
F. Brett Cox
Kathryn Cramer
Susan Hanniford Crowley
Don D’Ammassa
Daniel P. Dern
Bob Devney
Cory Doctorow
John Douglas
Debra Doyle
Thomas A. Easton
Bob Eggleton
John Farrell
Greg Feeley
Michael F. Flynn
John Ford
Esther Friesner
Irene Gallo
Craig Shaw Gardner
Deb Geisler
Janice Gelb
Donato Giancola
Greer Gilman
Geary Gravel
Leigh Grossman
Jess Hartley
William K. Hartmann
David Hartwell
Daniel Hatch
Jeff Hecht
Chip Hitchcock
Walter H. Hunt
Elaine Isaak
MaryAnn Johanson
Robert I. Katz
James Patrick Kelly
Dan Keohane
Tom Kidd
Daniel Kimmel
Rosemary Kirstein
Ellen Kushner
Geoffrey A. Landis
Sharon Lee
Fred Lerner
Paul Levinson
Shariann Lewitt
Timothy Liebe
Ernest Lilley
James D. Macdonald
Steve Macdonald
Ken MacLeod
Jim Mann
Laurie Mann
Darlene Marshall
George R. R. Martin
Parris McBride
John McDaid
Clayton L. McNally
Beth Meacham
Steve Miller
Sarah Monette
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Naomi Novik
Mark L. Olson
Priscilla Olson
Margaret Organ-Kean
Chad Orzel
Joshua B. Palmatier
Paul Park
Sheila M. Perry
Tamora Pierce
Larry Pfeffer
Steven Popkes
Omar Rayyan
Mike Resnick
Faye Ringel
Don Sakers
Steven Sawicki
John Scalzi
Karl Schroeder
Darrell Schweitzer
George Scithers
Melissa Scott
Delia Sherman
Joe Siclari
Wen Spencer
Allen Steele
Edie Stern
Ian Randal Strock
Charles Stross
Geri Sullivan
Tim Szczesuil
Cecilia Tan
Paul Tremblay
Mary A. Turzillo
Kestrel Verlager
Peter Weston
Eleanor Wood
Jane Yolen
Ann Tonsor Zeddies

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but they did not have this posted a month or so ago when I had to make my decision. I asked Boskone about this and they stated that until the program is completely confirmed they don't post anything except GOHs. I have to make my decisions at least a month ahead for good price plane tickets. Since Boskone Hotel rooms are twice as expensive per night also having to guess who their guests were made my choice easy.

Thomas Monaghan

[(Anonymous)]

A little effort on your part could have shown you who was there in past years as also attending. Its a good yardstick to use to see who will be at a con year after year.

http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/websites.html

http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/b42/programschedule.html