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In his OpEd, Gary Westfahl asks for the next two WorldCon's (in Seattle and LA) to be cancelled because of the actions of the COTUS administration - file770.com/no-more-worldcons-

Should the WorldCon be removed from the US?

File 770 · Op-Ed: “No More Worldcons in the United States?”First Worldcon art by Frank R. Paul [Introduction: Gary Westfahl has authored, edited, or co-edited over thirty books about science fiction and fantasy, including the Hugo Award-nominated Science F…

"...the last several years of discourse about the World Science Fiction Convention's host bidding processes have revealed what I would argue is a dangerous series of assumptions about the conditions under which many people would value any given convention location. Safety is obviously one of those conditions, but among those assumptions—the one presently being shaken by present political events—is the notion that North America is a uniquely safe place to travel to, unrisky in a manner with which many developing nations allegedly cannot compete.

"Nothing could be further from the truth. I do not say this disparagingly; after all, I love coming to the US for conventions and I hope to continue doing so. I just consider this a neutral fact: even arguably safer places in the world are not somehow safe in some essentialist sense, and even the safest among them can be tragically too challenging for some."

brandonobrien.xyz/us-conventio

Brandon O'Brien's Afternoon Tea · US Convention Travel, Safety, And What We Can Do TogetherWe as a greater SFF fandom need to disabuse ourselves of the notion that safety is a Boolean state of being.

Really glad I am not trying to run a World Science Fiction Convention in the United States right now. I think you would be insane to be planning a trip to the USA in the current climate, so I suspect the in-person part of this year's Worldcon will be more US-centric than usual.

seattlein2025.org/2025/03/20/s

Seattle Worldcon 2025 · Statement From Worldcon Chair
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I'm curious as to what effect the steady drip of stories like this will have on international attendance at this year's Worldcon in Seattle. I had already decided that I wouldn't be going near the USA once Trump was reelected but this kind of thing must make people reconsider their travel plans.

10news.com/news/local-news/nev

ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV · Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego borderBy Austin Grabish

Thanks to @offby1 for leading the work on the Hugo, Lodestar, & Astounding Awards nominations and ballot voting system in use this year, NomNom. I used it yesterday and it worked so smoothly, with lots of little touches to reassure & inform me, and help me help celebrate the best of sf/f.

Chris started it in December 2023, for the 2024 Worldcon to use. Grateful for his efforts & for everyone who's contributed!

github.com/WorldconVotingSyste

GitHubGitHub - WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom: Hugo Awards nominating and votingHugo Awards nominating and voting. Contribute to WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom development by creating an account on GitHub.

It looks like I'm not attending Worldcon in person this year after all. I'm interested in transferring my adult attending membership to someone in exchange for a $125+ donation to a trans rights charity or similar.

Message me if you're interested, and so I can confirm the charity isn't secretly bad or something

New year, nouveau compte Mastodon !

Salutations, hello all, mon ancienne instance devant fermer fin mars (imaginair.es pour les camarades qui seraient encore dessus et n'auraient pas eu l'info), je déménage chez les corvidés -c'est un peu un retour aux sources, finalement... Merci camarade @Zeph qui me l'a recommandée !

Comme les messages ne migrent pas d'un compte à l'autre, permettez que je me fende d'une nouvelle #introduction :

Moi, c'est Jolan ! Dans la vie je fais plein de trucs, mais je suis principalement connu du public comme l'auteur de quelques romans jeunesse publiés chez l'école des loisirs. En privé, je suis surtout connu pour mon humour, mon manque flagrant de coordination psychomotrice, et mes lasagnes végétariennes. J'aime aussi voyager, et mon objectif dans la vie c'est de caresser tous les chiens. (Tous. Les. Chiens.) (J'aimerais bien aussi devenir pote avec un meurtre de corbeaux un de ces jours mais c'est quand même vachement plus ambitieux.)

J'écris aussi de la #sfff -romans et nouvelles, en français et depuis quelques temps en anglais. Mes dernières publications dans ces domaines remontant un peu, le grand goal du moment c'est de réussir à placer des nouveaux trucs à droite à gauche. Je vous tiendrai au courant ici si ça fonctionne.

Je lis énormément, beaucoup de SF, hein, on se refait pas. Je me suis abonné à @clarkesworld après la #Worldcon 2024 et j'essaie de lire une nouvelle avec mon petit dej tous les matins. Je voudrais d'ailleurs parler davantage de mes lectures sur les RS, 2025 sera peut-être l'année où je vais me lancer ?

Politiquement je me considère comme anar (je voudrais d'ailleurs remercier personnellement #UrsulaLeGuin (RIP you great lady T_T) et @margaret pour m'avoir radicalisé en un bouquin chacune), ça ne vous dit pas grand chose alors ajoutons que je suis une énorme gauchiasse, et bien que ça n'ait aucun rapport je suis un mec trans NB qui aime bien s'imaginer que s'il vivait dans l'univers de #Tolkien il serait un Rohirim mais qui, s'il est honnête avec lui-même (ou juste en présence de qui que soit qui le connaisse un tant soit peu), doit bien admettre qu'il est plus du genre #hobbit -second petit déjeuner inclus.

Voilà, avec ça vous en savez déjà pas mal (sans doute même trop) sur ma pomme.

ACAB cependant, Macron démission etc.

Jo

A history of replies to attempts to intervene in #Worldcon Discourse:
2022 "You're scaremongering about China, they won't censor the Hugo awards."
2023 "You're scaremongering about the Trademarks, they're in good hands."
2024 "You're scaremongering about Tax issues, it's all fine."

From @HugoBookClub:
“Could you help get the word out about the Worldcon Flickr page?

All the photos are released under a CC BY NC 2.0 license. So fans are welcome to download and use the photos for personal purposes and projects, but we ask that attribution is provided where appropriate”
#Worldcon #HugoAwards #SFF

flickr.com/photos/200788293@N0