[ST] vericon guest announcement

[Claudia Mastroianni]

Hi, I'm not current staff, so I usually just lurk. But let me say 1)
that the Vericon conchair has e-mailed a friend and said he'll be
addressing folks in the Vericon LiveJournal community (vericon_fans)
later tonight, so maybe it's best to wait a few hours to see what he
has to say; and 2) Vericon isn't hurting for money these days, and I
doubt that was the basis for their decision. More likely it's along
the lines of, OSC is someone the organizers would enjoy seeing.

Your paragraph number 3 is a bit mangled, but I think I get the gist.
I don't think Vericon is trying to attract people outside the SF
community. They're doing quite well focusing on the college gamer /
webcomic crowd that seems to me to be their core audience. Everyone I
know who has said they're displeased about OSC being the GoH is, well,
older than that group. I'll be interested to hear what the student
population thinks.

Claudia

On 7/18/07, fibrowitch . <fibrowitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it be the person who selected Mr. Card agrees with his opinions? Or
> did the con staff just look at his sales and decided they needed a 'name' to
> bring in more people.
>
> There are three 'communities' when it comes to Mr. Card.
> 1- The people who know his opinions and actively dislike Mr. Card because of
> them. They,  will not attend the con, and will request people we know do not
> attend the con.  Most of the people on this list are in this group.
>
> 2- The people who know his books, maybe have an idea of him as a person, but
> do not feel strongly about him.  The people who will attend the con, maybe
> skip his GOH speech, but still attend the con.
>
> 3- The people who are not members of the  sf community, do not know Mr. Card
> as a person, or if he even is a person.  Having no idea of his views, they
> This is the largest group, and the ones the convention is trying to attract.
>  Who will never know Mr. Card's personal opinions on GBL unless he decides
> to make that the subject of his GOH speech.
>
> I have and really like some of his books,  I have and enjoy his book on
> writing.  Do I agree with his personal views, no.  Will I attend the
> convention no, but for entirely different reasons.
>
> Jan
>
>
>  On 7/18/07, David D'Antonio <dda at dantonio.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Given the level of dislike for Mr. Card expressed here, I'm now
> > curious how often he is a GoH at SF cons, in general; I can't imagine
> > that this area is *that* different from other areas that would host
> > cons. Or do cons take the attitude that they are honouring his SF
> > work rather than his non-SF opinions/beliefs?
> >
> > DDA
> >
> > On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Kestrell wrote:
> >
> > > I would add that Card's attitudes toward women as expressed in his
> > > fiction
> > > is also very disturbing. I was told by a number of people that Card
> > > was a
> > > fabulous writer but the first book I picked up by him--it was
> > > _Homebody_--was so incredibly misogynistic that I have been completely
> > > repelled by the man ever since. The level of hate he includes in
> > > his writing
> > > makes his attitudes difficult to overlook in quote honoring unquote
> > > his
> > > fiction.
> > >
> > > Kestrell
> >
> > --
> > DDA
> > Art Show Director, Arisia '08
> >
> >
> >
> >
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