{"id":8615,"date":"2025-08-14T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:00:41","slug":"worldcon-2025-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/worldcon-2025-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon 2025: Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Day Two of Worldcon! And The Neurodiversiverse<\/a> is already selling out at Liminal Fiction<\/a>! (Apparently someone mentioned it at a panel!) But if you want forty-plus hopeful, empowering own-voices stories of neurodivergent people encountering aliens, conveniently packaged with poetry and art in an award-winning anthology, please drop by their booth and buy up the rest of their stock of the NDV!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We still don’t have a fully staffed table as some people couldn’t make it to the con (one, yesterday, held up when their train stopped while the police resolved an active shooter situation (!)). But I am getting work done on my presentation for Saturday (and on my blogging!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some great costumes and t-shirts this year, even though traffic near the CA\/Milford booth is a bit thin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"T-shirt<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I particularly liked this Oz guardsman!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also met many authors and friends of authors I know. And, at breakfast at Alder and Ash this morning, I got in line at the host stand, only for the guy in front of me to step aside and say “Sorry! Still waiting for my party to arrive.” I was seated promptly … and then, moments later, the guy saw the woman sitting at the table next to me and joined her, saying “You were seated at the only table I couldn’t see from the door. THEN this random dude starts mentioning that The Shattering Peace<\/a> was doing well and discussing panels, and a quick glance confirmed it was John Scalzi, my favorite blogger<\/a>, who apparently also writes books or something, which some of you may have heard of, discussing publishing with someone in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Breakfast<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I let them eat, and finished my delicious breakfast so I could staff the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: NDV at the Liminal Fiction booth, the booth itself, the view from the CA\/Milford table, a t-shirt, an Oz guardian costume, and breakfast at Alder and Ash (with John Scalzi just outside the frame to the right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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