Ketchup: WorldCon Wrap-up: Day One, Part One

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

WorldCon Wrap-up: Day One, Part One

This will be impossible to do without sounding like I’m bragging, but, fortunately for us all, I don’t have time to get into great detail about those five wildly fantastic days in Denver. So here’s the highlight reel.

On Thursday, Diana and I attended a VIP tour of the NORAD complex in Cheyenne Mountain along with about twenty other writers and editors. Half the fun was just driving there! These were some extremely fun, bright, and interesting folks to hang out with. Even our early lunch at Denny’s was hilarious and mentally nutritious, if overloaded with butter in the physical realm.

From right to left: Blake Charlton, John Joseph Adams, Diana and Jeff Carlson, Kevin J. Anderson, Walter Jon Williams, Kathy Hedges, David Marusek, Sharry and Robert Charles Wilson, Annalee Newitz, Erin Cashier, Robert J. Sawyer, David J. Williams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Sean Williams, Lou Anders, Ed and Darcy Robert, “Bear” and Christina Lihani, Jeremy F. Lewis, and Carolyn Clink.

Annalee wrote up the tour nicely, and I’m too busy to do my own report at this point except to say that it was, well, completely phenomenal. ;)

Check out her take here at http://io9.com/5034540/deep-inside-norad-with-only-a-felt+tip-pen-and-twenty-science-fiction-writers

Labels: Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD tour, sci fi writers, WorldCon report