{"id":13359,"date":"2019-04-21T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:24:48","slug":"norwescon-42-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/04\/21\/norwescon-42-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwescon 42 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2265,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/guidebook.com\\\/guide\\\/116767\\\/event\\\/23176904&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190817212724\\\/https:\\\/\\\/guidebook.com\\\/guide\\\/116767\\\/event\\\/23176904\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 06:30:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 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As I\u2019m in a position whose duties are heavily weighted pre-convention, I was much more able to simply enjoy the con than I have been in the past few years, when I was coordinating the photo department, taking photos, and monitoring social media. This year, I got to spend much more time wandering around, finding friends and acquaintances old and new, and just enjoying the convention without being constantly on the run from one duty to another. It was nice!<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, this didn\u2019t translate into much panel attending \u2014 one of the major aspects of the con that I\u2019ve personally had little time to explore \u2014 though I did make sure to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/guidebook.com\/guide\/116767\/event\/23176904\/\">Saturday\u2019s Star Trek: Discovery panel<\/a>, which I very much enjoyed. Should I hold the Secretary position again next year, I\u2019ll try to get a few more panels onto my schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I got to sit at a dinner table with our Special Guest of Honor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancypearl.com\">Nancy Pearl<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/guidebook.com\/guide\/116767\/event\/23176694\/\">GOH Banquet<\/a>, and she was an absolutely wonderful person. We and the rest of the table chatted favorite books old and new, and after hearing some about my interests, she recommended Peter Hamilton\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/45252\">Pandora\u2019s Star<\/a><\/em> to me, so I\u2019ll definitely have to pick that up. One doesn\u2019t simply shrug off a personal recommendation from the model for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mcphee.com\/products\/librarian-action-figure\">Librarian action figure<\/a>, after all!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/con\/p-k-dick-award\/\">P. K. Dick Awards<\/a> were a highlight as always. Though I continue my streak of <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/09\/2019-philip-k-dick-award-rankings\/\">failing to predict the winner<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/2019\/04\/19\/2019-philip-k-dick-award-winner-announced\/\">final choice<\/a> was a worthwhile selection, and I was lucky enough to be seated next to the winner, so I got to hear her excited gasp of surprise as her name was called out.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to many people, made and laughed at lots of jokes (bad and good), talked books, TV, and film, had a few drinks, danced to the wee hours on Saturday night, ran around dressed up as the Unstoppable T-Rex, handed out many \u201cALL THE RIBBONS!\u201d ribbons, and once again, had a grand old time over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who helped to make this a good weekend, whether through personally interacting with me or through being part of the con community (staff and members alike) who make this such a good experience every year. I\u2019m glad I got to see those of you I did, and look forward to seeing you all again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On to Norwescon 43!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On to Norwescon 43!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2043],"tags":[61,1998],"class_list":["post-13359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-personal","tag-norwescon","tag-nwc42"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}