I’m still sad. One week past Labor Day weekend and I’m already jonesing for the next DragonCon. DragonCon is the best fan-centered large sci-fi and fantasy convention there is. Spread over 5 hotels in downtown Atlanta, cosplayers, goths, gamers, geeks, writers and watchers converge on the Thursday before Labor Day to stand in a registration line that nobody likes, but everybody seems to tolerate.
The following should be treated as a cautionary tale by any sci-fi conventioneer
During Labor Day Weekend in 2009, my wife Isabelle and I decided to attend a science fiction convention in downtown Atlanta. I knew that since we’d lived in New York, this would probably be a snap (always thought that about doing new things). We’d once been to a one-day Star Trek Convention at the Javits Center back in 1989. I may not have seen any celebrities there, but I did buy a cool transporter pad coffee mug and some rubber Spock ears.
And a tribble.