{"id":50,"date":"2006-08-23T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-08-23T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T15:33:49","slug":"going-to-the-lacon-iv-worldcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/going-to-the-lacon-iv-worldcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the L.A.Con IV  Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/elkodiddle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m going down to LA, well, to Anaheim, for the The 64th World Science Fiction Convention, a.k.a. the (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laconiv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Con IV Worldcon<\/a>).  I&rsquo;ll be arriving Thursday evening and leaving Saturday evening.  While I&rsquo;m there, I&rsquo;m doing two panels, an autograph session and a reading.  Here&rsquo;s my schedule.  Hope to see some of you guys there.<\/p>\n<p>[Today&#039;s first four photos are from Elko, Nevada. A place actually called &#8220;Dancing and Diddling&#8221;?  Almost too good to be true.  Not to mention Telescope Lanes.  Why don&#039;t we all live in Elko?]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/elkobowl1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Item 1:  Fri 8\/25  4:00 PM, 60-90 minutes.  Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FUTURE.  Participants:   Steven Barnes(M), David Nordley,  Rudy Rucker, Lisa Snellings-Clark.  Precis:   What will it be like for us, as people, to live in the future?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/elkobowl2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Item 2:  Fri 8\/25  5:30 PM, 60-90 minutes.    Title: CREATING LANGUAGE.   Participants:  Lorien Gray(M), Harry Harrison, Rudy Rucker, Lawrence Schoen, Vernor Vinge.  Precis:  How does a writer create a realistic, usable language for aliens and future people?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/elkobowl3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Item 3:  Sat 8\/26 12 Noon, 60 minutes. Title: AUTOGRAPHING: RUDY RUCKER<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/nevjackrab.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Item 4:  Sat 8\/26  2:00 PM, 60 minutes.  Title: READING: RUDY RUCKER<\/p>\n<p>[Jackrabbit is one of a large warren on a gravel road leading from Route 93 to Contact, Nevadey, which a 100% extraterrestrial town just south of the Idaho border.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m going down to LA, well, to Anaheim, for the The 64th World Science Fiction Convention, a.k.a. the (L.A. Con IV Worldcon). I&rsquo;ll be arriving Thursday evening and leaving Saturday evening. While I&rsquo;m there, I&rsquo;m doing two panels, an autograph session and a reading. Here&rsquo;s my schedule. Hope to see some of you guys there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}