{"id":4764,"date":"2009-12-09T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2011-12-18T19:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:46:39","slug":"a-highly-self-indulgent-history-of-readercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/a-highly-self-indulgent-history-of-readercon\/","title":{"rendered":"A highly self-indulgent history of Readercon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who attended Readercon last July can skip this entry. But as for the rest of you …<\/p>\n

I’ve attended every Readercon since the first, back in 1987, the only non-committee member to have done so. When the con runners asked for appreciations to print in the program book on the occasion of its 20th installment, I decided to do something no other attendee was capable of doing—write up my thoughts on all 19 cons that preceded it.<\/p>\n

Since I’ve been keeping an almost daily diary since 1978, I went back and pulled out one anecdote per year, to which I added clarifying footnotes. In a few instances, Eric Van added footnotes as well.<\/p>\n

In any case, I’ve had several requests for copies of this essay, so I thought I’d toss it out onto the interwebs. It should explain to anyone’s satisfaction why Readercon has always been my favorite con.<\/p>\n

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Those of you who attended Readercon last July can skip this entry. But as for the rest of you … I’ve attended every Readercon since the first, back in 1987, the only non-committee member to have done so. When the con runners asked for appreciations to print in the program book on the occasion 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":[15],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-readercon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}