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45th World Science Fiction Convention
27 August - 1 Sept 1987, Brighton
GoHs: Doris Lessing,
Alfred Bester
(unable to attend due to ill health), Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, (film
SFX) Ray Harryhausen, (artist) Jim Burns, (fan) Joyce & Ken Slater,
(fan)
Dave Langford
My first Worldcon. I thought the whole thing was brilliant, even as I
picked my way through the building site masquerading as an hotel, run by
the 'Manager from Hell'. This was the year 'Brighton Metropole' became a
dirty word in fandom.
Programme highlights
-
David Brin
:
The Case
for Optimism
. Why the doom and gloom prophets might be wrong.
-
Hawkwind
concert
-
Gerry Anderson
. His TV shows, including the
newly-in-production
Space Precinct
.
-
Panel:
Ten Worst SF Cliches
.
-
Bob Shaw
's
Serious Scientific Talk
-
Robert Forward
:
Six
Impossible Things Before Breakfast
. "Antigravity: just take a
mass the size of the moon, squeeze it into a torus the size of a
football field, and spin it nearly at the speed of light. It's just an
engineering problem!"
[Some of this stuff has since
been published in
Indistinguishable
from Magic
]
-
The Alan Dorey Quiz
-
Guy Gavriel Kay