{"id":18081,"date":"2010-02-21T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18081"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:11:35","slug":"happy-1st-birthday-and-10th-death-day-science-fiction-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/21\/happy-1st-birthday-and-10th-death-day-science-fiction-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 1st Birthday (and 10th Death Day), Science Fiction Age<\/i>!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo that’s not quite as old as the last one<\/a>, digging only 17 years back in time, to Labor Day weekend of 1993. Sovereign Media co-owners Carl Gnam and Mark Hintz wanted to do something out of the ordinary at ConFrancisco, the 51st World Science Fiction Convention, to celebrate the first birthday of Science Fiction Age<\/i>, and when we put our heads together, we figured—<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s our first birthday! Why not cake?<\/p>\n

So they shelled out for enough cake to serve around 2,000 people, part of which you can see below. There were several overflow sheet cakes to feed the ravenous hordes. The rocket ships, which ended up looking a little too much like Hugo trophies for my comfort (since SFA<\/i> hadn’t actually won any) were made of solid chocolate. Andy Porter walked off with one of them, something he tells me every time I see him. He supposedly still has it in his refrigerator.<\/p>\n

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I’m holding copies of Science Fiction Age<\/i> issues #1 (which debuted at the previous year’s Worldcon, MagiCon, held in Orlando, Florida) and #7.<\/p>\n

That same weekend I was interviewed for SCI FI Buzz<\/i>. I’ve shared this clip before, but I figured, why not serve it up again so that all of the puzzle pieces are together in the same place?<\/p>\n

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Ten years ago this month, in February 2000, we announced<\/a> that the May 2000 issue of SF Age<\/i> would be its last.<\/p>\n

We did not, however, celebrate that<\/i> occasion with cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a photo that’s not quite as old as the last one, digging only 17 years back in time, to Labor Day weekend of 1993. Sovereign Media co-owners Carl Gnam and Mark Hintz wanted to do something out of the ordinary at ConFrancisco, the 51st World Science Fiction Convention, to celebrate the first birthday of […]<\/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":[611,612,17,16],"class_list":["post-18081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carl-gnam","tag-mark-hintz","tag-science-fiction-age","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18085,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}