I had a great time, to put it simply.

This was my first Worldcon in eleven years, but many times it felt as if I had been there every year. Lots of new faces and even more old friends.

As for what happened?  Well, it is far too much to detail out in one post, especially as tired as I still am. But let me do a few general details now and some later.

Worldcon this year was spread out over most of downtown Denver, with the dealer’s room and signings upstairs in the very back of the convention center. Someone said it was about a third of a mile from the front of the convention center to the door into the dealer’s room. I can believe that. And it was another half mile or more from the front of the convention center to where the party hotel and some programming was. One fine afternoon, Kris and I had a signing until 5:30 near the dealer’s room and then Kris was scheduled to be at the Sidewise Awards at 5:30 in the party hotel. We are from sea level, so that hike at near run speed was tough.

But leaving the signing a little early, we were not very late getting there and Kris won that award for her story Recovering Apollo 8. She got second for the same story in the Hugo Awards the next evening.

I’ll go on at some length in another post about the value and lack of value for a writer of attending a convention like this one. But for the moment I just wanted to say that I am back, I had a blast, and I enjoyed seeing everyone.

Cheers, Dean

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