Saturday May 26th, 2001 @ 10-11:15 a.m. LFScon at Marcon 36 Hyatt Regency Hotel and Columbus Convention Center, Room # Franklin A, Columbus, Ohio "Intelligent Self-Defense, the 2nd Amendment & the Hi-Tech Weaponry of the Future" (Franklin A) With L. Neil Smith, J. Neil Schulman, Victor Milan, Joseph Martino and LFS Assistant Director Amy Rule. Moderator: E. Webber Jones. Discussion topics: What is intelligent self-defense in the 21st century? Will the 2nd Amendment be more or less important in the coming decades? How will developing weapons technologies affect the right to self-defense and the right to carry? Do the anti-gun and anti-technology movements share the same false premises? Join the Libertarian Futurist Society for its first convention! http://www.lfs.org/ The LFS will celebrate its 20th anniversary by sponsoring its first national conference May 25-27, 2001, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio . "LFScon" will be part of Marcon 36, Ohio's oldest and largest science fiction and fantasy convention which annually attracts more than 3,000 writers, editors, artists, film actors, filkers, costumers, gamers and fans from across the country and Canada. LFScon/Marcon 36 has more Prometheus Awardwinning novelists than any other libertarian or sf event in history! More than four dozen guests have been confirmed for LFScon/Marcon, including L. Neil Smith (The Probability Broach, Pallas'), James Hogan (Voyage From Yesteryear, The Multiplex Man), Grand Master Poul Anderson (Trader to the Stars, The Stars Are Also Fire, The Star Fox), Vernor Vinge (A Deepness in the Sky, Marooned in Realtime), F. Paul Wilson (Healer, Wheels Within Wheels, An Enemy of the State), Brad Linaweaver (Moon of Ice), Victor Milan (The Cybernetic Samurai) and J. Neil Schulman (Alongside Night, The Rainbow Cadenza). Don't miss your chance to meet and socialize with other libertarian sf fans from across the country at LFScon, one of the few libertarian conferences whose primary focus will be cultural rather than political and whose primary purpose will be to have fun! Join Prometheus Awardwinning writers L. Neil Smith, James Hogan, Poul Anderson, Vernor Vinge, F. Paul Wilson, J. Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver and Victor Milan at the Libertarian Futurist Society's 20th anniversary celebration! Between them, these libertarian sf writers have won 11 out of 19 of all the Prometheus Awards ever given for Best Novel, plus five Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) awards. Other LFS guests and panelists: sf writers Joseph Martino and Steve Burgauer; LFS Director Victoria Varga, LFS Assistant Director Amy Rule, LFS founder Michael Grossberg, LFS Vice President Chris Hibbert and Board member Lynn Maners, chair of the Prometheus Hall of Fame finalist judging committee, Prometheus editor Bill Stoddard, LFS Webmaster Tod Casasent, and LFS board members Fred Moulton, Bruce Sommer,and libertarian ifeminist Wendy McElroy. For additional information on Marcon 36 please go to http://209.235.59.71/marcon1/goh.htm To register go here: http://209.235.59.71/marcon1/Register.htm You can pay at the door for the event or just purchase a Saturday only pass for $25. For information on the Hyatt go to http://209.235.59.71/marcon1/hyatt.htm I hope to see you there. Regards, Matt- ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************
