Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:13:58 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted White wrote:

>(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
>
Uh, I think the folks in Glasgow and Toronto would quibble with that.

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Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling