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In article <3d7r7k$9tu@werple.mira.net.au>, kat@werple.mira.net.au
(Kathryn Andersen) wrote:

> II.
> Guests that we get in Australia don't tend to be very famous anyway.
> Famous guests cost too much, and there are too few fen here to bear
> the costs.  I am talking media fandom here, because that's the kind
> of con I tend to go to.  Not that I don't read books, it's just that
> if I am going to a convention to meet a GoH, than I am more likely to
> be mildly interested in even an obscure media guest than in an author
> I haven't read.  I may be wrong, but there also seems to be more Media
> cons around here (Melbourne) than Lit cons.  Unless I am just not
> connected to the Lit grapevine...

Well, I must say that Terry Pratchett was both famous, and a really great
GoH when he was at SwanCon last year. I don't know how much the con
provided in the way of airfares, but he brought his family out as well,
and he really got on well with the fen. Especially memorable was the
icecream banquet...

This year we had Sylvia Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame), who certainly
provided lots of info about all the series she has worked with etc., and
did interact to a certain degree, but IMHO, not as "all round" a GoH as
Terry Pratchett (who tended to go beyond his own work and investigate
other aspects of fantasy etc. in general).

It will be interesting to see what Pat Cadigan is like next year...

Have fun,
Shay

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