The angst of Anticipation

[adriennef]

The thing I like best about the World Science Fiction Convention (aka Worldcon) is that it gives me a reason to travel to places I probably wouldn’t choose on my own. In 2007, the honor (or sentence, depending on how the individual interprets it) of hosting it was awarded to the Montréal bidding committee, who held it August 6-10, 2009. With

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[melchar]

Excellemt and cogent analysis ... and it was fun to read. Well done!

[kevin_standlee]

Before Kevin Standlee hopped on his train to Montréal, he told me the WSFS administrators planned to have the deciding vote on the fate of the semi-prozine category on Sunday.
I do not know how you got that idea. What I said was that the vote would happen before the Hugo Ceremony, not that it would happen on Sunday.I was sorry to see that vote was arranged before the Hugo ceremony, since the results could have some influence over how I would vote.
If you felt that strongly about it, you should have come to the Preliminary Business Meeting on Friday and argued for the vote on this subject to be postponed until Monday, which is the only way it could have happened after the Hugo Awards. But there hasn't been a Monday meeting since 1992, so I suspect it it highly unlikely that you could have persuaded a majority of the members present to vote for such a postponement.Once again I was thwarted because I never learned the scheduled was changed yet again to have the vote on Saturday and I was never able to exercise my right to vote. That