[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've heard that too, straight from the concom. Yet the article in today's
> Mercury News talks about 4,000 attendees -- more than double the
> official figures. The exact phrase is "More than 4,000 science-fiction
> devotees are expected, ..."
As someone who's chaired more SF conventions then most, I can say that
ConJose's policy is standard fo worldcons in the last 15-20 years.
Mostly this has to do with the costs of meeting space. Smaller
conventions may, or may not, give free memberships for speakers. Most
do, but not all.
As for numbers, the Convention Committee people I had dinner with said
4,000 on-site as well. That seems like a lot, but the last time the
worldcon was in the area (ConFrancisco in 1993 in The City), the
on-site was over 7,000. That's a big drop.
Michael
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Walter Cronkite - Jan 1981:
"We fall short of presenting all, or even a goodly part, of the news
each day that a citizen would need to intelligently exercise his
franchise in this democracy. So as he depends more and more on us,
presumably the depth of knowledge of the average man is diminished.
This clearly can lead to a disaster in democracy."
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