{"id":1480,"date":"2003-10-02T08:18:45","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T15:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/10\/02\/1480.html"},"modified":"2003-10-02T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T15:18:45","slug":"cheryl-on-torcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/10\/02\/cheryl-on-torcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl on TorCon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest issue of Cheryl Morgan's Hugo-nominated <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emcit.com\/emcit097.shtml\">Emerald City<\/a><\/cite> is out, giving a long and detailed con report for TorCon.  Cheryl has biases (as does everyone), but she's also got a lot of experience in fandom and convention-running, and she provides a much more detailed behind-the-scenes look at what went wrong (and what went right) in putting TorCon together than I've seen elsewhere.  I know that at least one of you was involved in working for the con, so be prepared: Cheryl's comments are not kind to the ConCom in general.  But she does praise some of the people who did the low-level work of making things happen.<\/p>\n<p>(It seems to me that trashing WorldCon is a traditional fannish hobby; I remember people saying at MilPhil that that con was the worst-run convention ever, and so I didn't pay much attention to people saying the same thing about TorCon.  But it appears from Cheryl's report that TorCon did have more than the usual number of organizational problems.)<\/p>\n<p>She also discusses attending the academic sf conference that preceded TorCon and talking with Margaret Atwood, who claims, quoting Cheryl, that \"the whole dispute [about whether <cite>Oryx and Crake<\/cite> is sf] has been a misunderstanding,\" and that <cite>The Handmaid's Tale<\/cite> isn't feminist sf, because (as Cheryl puts it) \"it depicts a world in which men still rule.\"  Cheryl suggests that perhaps Atwood simply suffers from the common fannish obsession with extremely precise and limited definitions of terms; as someone who's rather too definition-bound myself, that sounds plausible to me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Cheryl Morgan&#8217;s Hugo-nominated Emerald City is out, giving a long and detailed con report for TorCon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}