Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:21:22 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 8/24/04 5:05:02 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> According to the offical listing <http://wsfs.org/nasfic.html>,
>> the first NASFiC was in the 1975 in LA.  Blame LASFS?
>
>When I saw this, my first reaction was that that can't be right,
>since
>I had just been reading about NASFiC in a WSFA Journal from
>the 1960s.
>
>I went back and looked again.  And it turns out it *was*
>discussing
>the 1975 NASFiC, which is correctly named, and correctly
>placed on the
>west coast opposite a Worldcon in Australia.
>
>This was on page 13 of issue 69, dated October/November
>1969.
>
>So it looks like long planning and bidding cycles are not new.
>
>On the other hand, it claims that the Hugos would be given
>out at that
>NASFiC, not at the Worldcon.  That's not right, is it?

Hugos are always at Worldcon (sometimes on Saturday, sometimes on
Sunday; it's a smoffish squable).

I suspect there's no need to run a correction.

mjw