From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:12:28 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivy Yap" <yapivy at techemail.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 10:26 PM
Subject: [WSFA] 2007 Worldcon

> --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> I agree with Erica that Japan is not a good choice for the Worldcon,
> for the reason she gave and several other reasons.  Expense, airline
> security hassles, passport and visa hassles, and differing cultural
> expectations.
> <<<<
>
> I'd like to point out that the above reasons (expense, etc.) are also
perfectly valid concerns for the foreigners who would have to travel to the
good ol' US of A for a Columbus Worldcon.

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(Sorry about the previous post-without-reply; my finger slipped on the
keyboard, and apparently "Ctrl" means "send.")

Despite it being called "the World Science Fiction Convention" or
"Worldcon," it's mostly American (the majority of attendees -- even in
foreign locations) and analogous to baseball's "World Series," which has
*never* left the USA.   It's really the American national convention -- as
proven by the substition of a "Nasfic" held in the US whenever the Worldcon
does leave the country.

--Ted White