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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 15:12:38 -0600
As we move to our December Discussion Topic of "Favorites of the Year," I notice a brochure just sent to the CCBC. It's an announcement of the "Odyssey Con 2002" convention to be held in Madison between April 12 and 14, 2002.
The brochure indicates that more information will appear on the Odyssey Con web site www.oddcon.org Speakers confirmed to date include Timothy Zahn, David B. Coe, Gary Gygax, John Kovalic, Joan D. Vinge, and Jim Frenkel.
There's an early bird registration fee that looks too good to pass up
(deadline:1/1/02) and another with a mid-March deadline.
I realize that this is only one of the several (many?) science fiction gatherings scheduled across the continent annually.
I'm in no position to compare the plans of one to another. However, one of the programming notes in this particular convention brochure caught my eye because of our CCBC-Net November discussion: "In the aftermath of the events on September 11th, we did not feel like we could act as if nothing important had happened. So we will be including, along with our usual programming, panels on speculative fiction and the response to terror, and its effect on war, peace, and civil liberties."
The brochure goes on to indicate that more information will appear on the Odyssey Con web site www.oddcon.org Speakers confirmed to date include Timothy Zahn, David B. Coe, Gary Gygax, John Kovalic, Joan D. Vinge, and Jim Frenkel.
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 03 Dec 2001 03:12:38 PM CST
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 15:12:38 -0600
As we move to our December Discussion Topic of "Favorites of the Year," I notice a brochure just sent to the CCBC. It's an announcement of the "Odyssey Con 2002" convention to be held in Madison between April 12 and 14, 2002.
The brochure indicates that more information will appear on the Odyssey Con web site www.oddcon.org Speakers confirmed to date include Timothy Zahn, David B. Coe, Gary Gygax, John Kovalic, Joan D. Vinge, and Jim Frenkel.
There's an early bird registration fee that looks too good to pass up
(deadline:1/1/02) and another with a mid-March deadline.
I realize that this is only one of the several (many?) science fiction gatherings scheduled across the continent annually.
I'm in no position to compare the plans of one to another. However, one of the programming notes in this particular convention brochure caught my eye because of our CCBC-Net November discussion: "In the aftermath of the events on September 11th, we did not feel like we could act as if nothing important had happened. So we will be including, along with our usual programming, panels on speculative fiction and the response to terror, and its effect on war, peace, and civil liberties."
The brochure goes on to indicate that more information will appear on the Odyssey Con web site www.oddcon.org Speakers confirmed to date include Timothy Zahn, David B. Coe, Gary Gygax, John Kovalic, Joan D. Vinge, and Jim Frenkel.
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 03 Dec 2001 03:12:38 PM CST
