From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:23:41 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kling" <jkling at nasw.org>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon

> Ted White wrote:
>
> >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.

I doubt it.  Have you asked them?   (As far as Toronto goes, most Americans
regard Canada as our 51st state.)

--Ted White