Hello and Welcome to this new yahoo group! I hope people find it useful to discuss all things in regards to the convention. We can talk about who to make...
As some of you know, I'm sure, I'm trying to resign as WisCon Huxter Room Manager. I'm doing the job for the next event (2008), but I hope some one, or a...
Just thought I'd post a little update on gaming at Oddcon. We've got Amalor running his traditional Midnight Munchkin Madness Sat night. Pat Pagel is running a...
My thoughts on promotion: It should be on everyone's "To do" list. I wear the tshirts, post flyers(thanks Jerome), hand out business cards(thanks Tom), send...
There is no sense in not making this "public". Peter David has dropped out of being GoH at Oddcon due to a scheduling conflict with another convention that is...
Fred Saberhagen Kage Baker Connie Willis Iain M. Banks Bruce Boston NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read...
That’s disappointing. Here are some authors that I would like to meet: Gene Wolfe Jacqueline Carey Naomi Novik Elizabeth Moon Ursula Le Guin Connie Willis ...
Would E.E. Knight be willing to fill in? I mean, he has been to nearly every Odd Con anyway...I don't see why he should not get top billing at least once. ...
Jim Butcher would be nice. ... From: Tom Stewart To: oddcon@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:57 PM Subject: RE: [Oddcon] Peter David not...
Hello, other OddCon List denizens! I like the suggestions that have been coming out of this list for GOH. If I could get people to write a little about why...
Dan Simmons would be my first choice. Why? 1)He's one of my favorite authors 2)He writes Horror (like GRRM) and hard SF(not like GRRM) 3)Him and GRRM can talk...
One of the reasons I suggested E.E. Knight was primarily becuase of the timeline -- He lives in the Chicago area, which is close enough for him to drive to...
If I had to pick two off of my list I would pick E.E. Knight and Naomi Novik. This would give the con a nice dragon theme. Here are my reasons for each. E.E....
I have read only one Dan Simmons book, and that was The Song of Kali. It is one of the BEST books I have ever read... I read it like ten years ago, and it...
I just checked out his website and saw this news item http://www.dansimmons.com/news/news_items.htm#vance Dan and George might want to hang out for a weekend:)...
The only hitch I see for Dan Simmons is that he's doing the Guest of Honor thing at Norwescon31 in Seattle from March 20-23, 2008. I really comes down to...
Hi, I wanted to let you all know that we will have an OddCon meeting this Thursday at Bill Farina's house at 7:30. The address is 1642 Lake View Avenue ...
Howdy folks. Will there be gaming at next year's Oddcon, or have the organizers given up on that neglected aspect of the convention? If there is to be gaming,...
Please send me your agenda items for the meeting! Here are some thoughts I want to use to guide the meeting: I would like this meeting to be pretty much an...
Um, yes there will be gaming at Oddcon next year. I posted about it to MadisonDorks, GrumblingDwarf, and the Geek Kon forums a while ago. There won't be any...
I wanted to let you all know that Kage Baker has agreed to be our second guest of honor! We still may get a third guest, so the suggestions for GOH that have...
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Richard S. Russell
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Hi. Sorry to have my first post to this group be an off-topic one, but here goes. Can anyone tell me whether there is a Filmcon convention scheduled for...
I just wanted to say how nice it was to see everybody at Geek.Kon this weekend. Lynne and I had a great time. We can’t wait to be back in Madison for Odd...
Hi, The word I heard from several people (for everyone's info) was that Film Con isn't happening this year, but that Eric will be doing something at the...