From: Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:34:17 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mostly because it's a missed opportunity. Fandom had a chance to bring
media, comics and anime into our fold but there were too many people
that had a very exclusionary attitude about non-literary SF. And now
that they have all outgrown our type of fandom it's too hard to bring
them back into the fold. Look at some of the biggest cons that they run
in comparison with World Con... Media: DragonCon - 30,000 attendees.
Comics: San Diego Comic Con - 32,000 attendees. Anime: Katsucon -
20,000 attendees. Us: World Con - 6,000 on a good year. We're the runts
on the block now and have to learn to be more accepting of our bastard
children. We may still be able to bring some of them back into the
fold.

Michael D. Pederson
Publisher/Editor
Nth Degree

On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Mike B. wrote:

>> Fandom has been usurped by media fandom, comic fandom,
>> and anime fandom.  It's a little too late to try and
>> change that.
>
> Why?