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Jo Walton reports on Scintillation 2

From Jo Walton:

Aliens did not invade, Scintillation 2 happened, and despite a lot of people being felled at different points by varied ill health, it was a success. Program went well — the last minute substitution of a play by Greer Gilman acted by Greer and Emmet O’Brien in place of Greer’s scheduled interview was such fun we may repeat it next year. The cake all got eaten. The Sassafrass concert was amazing. The pre-con reading at Argo was a lot of fun. Thanks to everyone who came, everyone who supported but couldn’t make it, and especially to our benefactors and philanthropists who help make Scintillation possible.

Scintillation 3 will take place October 23-25th 2020, same hotel. This is NOT Canadian Thanksgiving! We hope to see you there.

Everyone who backed the Kickstarter and plus everyone who didn’t but who buys a membership in Scintillation 3 by September 1st, will get a copy of the e-book of false starts Alter Reiss is putting together.

Membership for Scintillation 3 is available right now!
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We are holding the at-con rate of $70 CDN and $140 for Benefactors until the end of October and then it will go up to $80 and $150. Please buy memberships as soon as you can, it really really helps, and besides, they may sell out. If you buy a supporting membership for $15, you will be able to convert to attending at any point up to two weeks before the convention. Full attending memberships will also be available until two weeks before the convention, or until we are full.

We’re still negotiating with the hotel, but will have details about next year’s hotel room rates soon.

Convention Review

Ad Astra

Ad AstraAd Astra was a good con, not their best, but not bad either. It turns out that many volunteers had only become involved in January. That’s really learning to swim the hard way! They did a good job indeed, considering the time they had.

I’ve no pictures, my camera just stopped working, yet it was fine a week ago. I did take some video of the masquerade, but haven’t had a chance to view it yet. If it’s OK, I’ll post it here. It was rather short compared to the good ol’ days, but there were some fine costumes, and good skits.

For me, the best panels were the ones on space ship design, police procedures myth busting, and 1966–the Year of. SF on TV.  There were an amazing number of panels directed at wannabe authors, and apparently a lot of wannabe authors were in attendance. The Mountie giving the police procedures presentation asked how many were in attendance because they were authors wanting to get it right, and nearly everyone raised a hand.

Regrettably, there was very little on costuming or art, and the art show was very small. Only one piece jumped out at me, an amazing Game of Thrones quilt.  There was no artist GoH, a big disappointment for me.
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There were free books to choose from at registration–cool! I found a new author I like.

The dealer room was ok, but at my age I am not much into collecting stuff. In fact, I have to start getting rid of stuff! There was a lot of jewellery, but when do I get to wear pretty things anymore? Many book dealers, I mostly spent time browsing their wares. There were complaints about the dealer room being downstairs and way off down the hall, but really there is not much choice given the space the con can afford to rent.

I’ve registered for next year. Ad Astra is one of a very few fan run cons left. and deserving of support.