Arisia article in the Phoenix

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Arisia 2011: Bigger, better, and building up to Boskone

Apparently Arisia is a sexathon? I must be doing the wrong events!

As for having once been part of Boskone, I guess fact-checking is dead. :)

Comments

[ron_newman]

... and who wanted a convention in Boston, at a time when Boskone had (by necessity) moved to Springfield.

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

...and whom wanted costuming events, at a time when Boskone had banned costuming

Banned costuming?

[arxacies.livejournal.com]

But..what is a convention without costuming? It's like Christmas without..Christmas-y things.

Re: Banned costuming?

[archangelbeth]

As I recall the rumors, way-back-when, Boskone was trying to be a "literary convention." Please to be reading the words within the quotes with the snootiest faux british accent you can imagine.

I went to one Boskone, back in that era, and it was... okay. The art show was absolutely pathetic, though.

I gather that Boskone has loosened up a bit, though, from some of the flyers I see or get sent occasionally.

Re: Banned costuming?

[ron_newman]

Depends on definition of 'way back when'. I'm not sure when you went, but take a look at Boskone history (noting especially the 1980s) and The Rise and Fall of the Giant Boskones. This is all before my time but it's legendary.

For a more purely 'literary' local convention, see Readercon.

Re: Banned costuming?

[archangelbeth]

OH! Ford in 1997! That must be when I met him! I had this totally unattached memory of talking to him in at a con, and I didn't think it was Worldcon...

Well, the rumors that I'd heard must've been around the mid-to-late 90s, then.

Re: Banned costuming?

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

The text of the Boskone Letter is at http://www.nightsong.com/phr/boskone-25.txt If we are going to talk about it, people should at least have the facts.