Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:32:17 -0500
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
From: Samuel Lubell <lubell at cais.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Lunacon reaction
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	If Lunacon wasn't so close to my parents, I'd probably stop going to it.
This doesn't mean that anything spectacularly wrong happens at Lunacon, but
that so much doesn't go sensibly.  For instance, they had Buffy panels in
rooms that fit maybe 40 people while ballrooms stood empty.  Their major
guests Peter Hamilton and Alan Dean Foster did a reading and GOH speech and
that was it.  They didn't even do the obvious and have a panel with
Hamilton on the modern space opera or Alan Dean Foster on the difference
between novels and novelizations.

Actually, I thought the panels on a whole were rather lackluster and the
programming staff didn't seem to provide the panelists with any more idea
of what the program was about than the title.  I skipped the masquerade but
was told it was fairly short.  The art show was grand and I did find the
panel on the publishing industry to be fairly interesting and the alternate
religions panel did have some nice debate, but overall, considering they
are the con closest to the center of the publishing industry, they should
do a lot better.