From: Steve Davies Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: VoM Issue 0 (Worldcon Newsletter) Date: Sat, 02 Sep 95 10:29:38 GMT Organization: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth Lines: 232 Reply-To: steve@vraidex.demon.co.uk VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS The INTERSECTION Newszine Wednesday 23th August_Afternoon Warning We know you hear us earthmen! We will be revenged for the unprovoked attack on our Mars base. By August 29th we will have destroyed Glasgow! Finding the Newsletter The newsroom, alas, is very small and cannot cope with hordes of people descending upon us with stories, reviews and things to be copied. If you want to submit stories for the newsletter or if you want get stuff copied, please leave them at our desk in Hall 4. If you absolutely have to come and give us things in person, we are in the Clyde Room. This is up the stairs in the main concourse, near the Green Room. We have a small number of computers which are reserved purely for the newsletter. Sorry, we can't let you produce your own documents on them unless you resort to really radical bribery and corruption. If you have your own masters and want copying done, we can do this at a price. This price is 5p a sheet and we don't guarantee either a time or indeed even to be able to do it at all. A lot of our printing capacity is taken up with copying the newsletter and other convention publications like the WSFS business meeting minutes and the Programme Change sheets. If we have any spare time, we'll do fan repro. Additional Warning Our contract with the SECC includes a number of clauses on the sale and consumption of both food and drink. Basically, the SECC (or its designated agents) have a monopoly on selling food and drink within the convention centre. Please co-operate by not bringing in drinks which have been acquired elsewhere and drinking them in the SECC. If you have to, please drink outside on the terrace between the SECC and the hotel. Registration Registration still need more gophers! Come one, come all and join the merry band of rodents. If you haven't registered yet then please do so, we want to cut down the rush on Thursday as much as we can. It is essential that Registration is as quick and painless a process as possible_but this means lots of people helping. Newsletter Distribution Future issues of the newsletter will be available from the bright pink boxes marked 'NEWS' in large friendly letters. These are positioned at Registration, Information, Fan Lounge and a number of other points. Back issues are available from the Information Desk. The Newsboxes all have a large manilla envelope attached to them. This is for you to put new articles in (or see box on this page). Evening issues will be available in the various hotels as soon as we can find people willing to carry a couple of hundred copies back to their hotel. If you are having problems getting hold of copies, tell us and we'll try and distribute more in your direction. Buses There is an Intersection bus service between the SECC and the centre of town. This has been laid on to replace the train service which was intended to be running from the SECC. In case you hadn't heard, the on-site station was badly flooded this spring when the Clyde burst its banks and will not be ready for use again until October. More details to follow Real Soon Now! Films Intersection has arranged for exclusive previews of two films at the Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street. This is the first European showing for both of these films and entrance is free on production of your Intersection membership badge. Friday 10 am_Terminal Force Saturday 10 am_Species Note that you may be asked to provide some additional identification. Programme Changes A Fan Programme organiser writes: Friday 22:00_Fanroom Beach Party replaced by Fantasy Centre Party Saturday 23:30_Eternicon party replaced by Pan-European Party (Kintyre Suite). Eternicon party is now Sunday 12 midnight (Kintyre Suite) ??_Live and Dangerous Ansible has been cancelled due to a shortage of live and/or dangerous Langfords. How To Suppress Fannish Feminism now additionally features Ken Brown and Tracy Benton Sunday 21:00_Due to a communications problem, none of the participants in Romancing the Internet have been informed they are taking part. Was this deliberate? Come along and see whether any of the panel turn up and what they have to say about it! Sunday 22:00_Sex in Fandom now includes Fran Dowd. Monday 22:00_Fannish Question Time now features Greg Pickersgill (ch), Kate Solomon, Martin Tudor, Dan Steffan, Ian and Karen Pender-Gunn. And now, a last-minute note from the Filk Programme... All filk programming on the Thursday night is in the Cabin Bar at the Crest, otherwise it is on the 10th floor. More importantly, item 063 A filk at Bedtime (22:00 at the Crest) is a Zelazny memorial filk. We aim to have short readings from some of his books followed by the songs they inspired. Come and join in (especially if you have a Zelazny filk song) Also on Thursday_item 046 at 17:00 in Argyle 1_Filk in Mainstream Fandom_no longer exists. It officially died 2 weeks ago. Please don't come.... Similarly, any items labelled Filk Feeding Frenzy (181, 302, 550) don't exist either. Thank you! Site Selection Voting for the site of the 1998 Worldcon will take place in Hall 4. Hours are: Thursday 14:00-18:00 Friday 10:00-20:00 Saturday 10:00-18:00 Fireworks! Yes, with mere days to spare, Intersection has managed to arrange the fireworks display that we've all been hoping for. A last-minute donation from Creed means that we'll be starting the show after the Hugo ceremony on Sunday night. Don't miss it. WSFS This is where you learn just what your Worldcon membership money makes you responsible for.... The WSFS business meetings are open for everyone to go along and have their say about the running of WSFS, that shadowy organisation of fans that runs the Worldcon and which you have just joined (yes, it's too late to give your membership back). Marvel as Robert Sacks proposes yet another incomprehensible motion. Shudder as the entire room shouts "object to consideration" with a single voice. Stare in wonder as Tim Illingworth and Kevin Standlee recite Roberts Rules of Order to the tune of 'Waltzing Matilda'.... The business meetings start at 10:30 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday; but you should turn up at 10:00 in order to have time to read the many handouts that will be distributed. If you want to submit new business to the business meeting, you must submit 200 copies by the deadline which is 2 hours after the opening. In Memoriam We were going to include a complete list of everyone who has resigned from the Intersection committee. Unforunately we don't have a typeface small enough to get it all into one issue of the newsletter. Real World news A new galaxy has emerged at the far end of Hall 4. Oxygen masks should be worn due to the lack of atmosphere. More Slannish Fang Round - your turn to buy drinks for everyone else in your group (or to hurriedly disappear and count the moths in your wallet) Full Scottish Breakfast - like full english breakfast but with black pudding Black Pudding/Haggis/Big Mac - edible so long as you don't ask what's in it. Read Me - Pocket Programme Con Suite - No idea, never heard of it. On This Day AD 79. Pompeii accidentally destroyed by discarded cigarette from Vesuvicon. Tech Ops disclaim responsibility. AD 410. Alaric the Goth sacks Rome in an early example of soccer hooliganism. Questions asked in the Senate. National Lottery funds allocated to purchase more lions for the Circus Maximus. AD 1572. Massacre of St. Bartholemew. Government blames recent invention of printing and spread of unhealthy habit of reading. Parties Niagara Falls in '98 bid party_Thursday 11:00 pm, Suite 1017 Forte Crest. Announcements WOOF (the Worldcon Order of Faneditors) will assemble its annual APA at 4pm Sunday in the Fan Lounge in Hall 4. All are invited to contribute (copy count 100). Please drop off contributions in the Hall 4 Fan Lounge by 6pm Saturday. Chris Priest is making a flying visit on Saturday to Monday in order to (a) tell everyone to buy his spiffy new book The Prestige; (b) spread appalling stories about diminutive Americans with 25-year-overdue anthologies; (c) risk assassins' gunfire at the Hugo ceremony... GIANT ROBOT ALERT: One of the anime programmers will not be attending the con owing to a "major mundane crisis". The anime programme will therefore be somewhat "fluid". Please bear with us and check the information desk for further details. A+E Get Together (RPG_Lee Gold). Saturday 3-5pm Malin & Rockall rooms. Information If you lose anything, or find anything, go to Info Desk except Lost Con Badges_Registration Lost Children_Kidcon If you want to leave message for your friends, use the Voodoo Board. It's in the Concourse and it has instructions. If you want to get messages from your friends, check the Voodoo Board regularly. Gophers (again) Thanks to our gophers, we are getting set up a lot sooner and better than we expected. And as a "thank you" Intersection has bought gopher T-shirts_you get these after 15 hours worked and you claim them from your own Area heads/ Shift managers (remind them to go to Ops and get a pile for your area TODAY). The Area Heads should also give you your gopher timesheets which they should sign appropriately for the hours you have put in from Wednesday onwards. Every 3 hours worked will count for a Gopher Refreshment Ticket, which you should claim from your (horribly overworked) Area Head/Shift Manager (assuming that the aforementioned AH/SM has remembered to get them from Finance). These GRTs can be "spent" from Thursday onwards, at either the Gopher Hole (claim one can of soft drink there) or at the Baked Potato stand in Hall 4 (near the Gopher Hole) for one plain baked potato. You need not claim your GRT until you're ready to spend it_i.e. hours worked Wednesday can be used to claim a GRT on Thursday. You can only spend a GRT on the day you claim it though. Finance will be keeping a track of GRTs spent, as any money left over from the GRT scheme will be used to help fund the Gopher Party on Monday night (in the Crest hotel). This system applies to everyone, from our newest gopher to our Co-Chairs. (Indeed the Co-Chairs have been told that the higher up you are, the less you should benefit, so they must work 3 Worldcons to earn their baked potato). Thank you, very much_your help is much appreciated! Danger_Wild Animals! Assorted film and TV crews can be observed wandering around the convention, getting into trouble and generally making us look foolish for the amusement of the great British public. Just try not to scream when they ask where your Spock ears have gone or ask you to sing in Klingon. Please be understanding and please, complain to us rather than just shouting at them. Credits This issue sprung fully-formed from the brow of Steve Davies with hatchet-work from Mike Scott, Chris O'Shea, Alex Stewart and assorted email correspondents. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen M.W. 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